Posted on 08/27/2010 2:12:14 PM PDT by markomalley
Now here’s a good idea. (Heavy sarcasm)
A high profile British homosexual activist wants the age of sexual consent lowered to 14, on the basis that currently underage sex “is mostly consenting, safe and fun”.
Peter Tatchell plugged for this change in America in one of a series of articles on “dangerous ideas” on the website Big Think recently.
Dangerous, certainly, but also just a little bit surprising in view of this year of paedophilia scandals and his campaign against Pope Benedict’s visit to the UK — one of the reasons being the Pope’s alleged “cover up” of clerical sexual abuse of children?
By a tortured logic Tatchell claims that a lower age of consent is “the best way” to protect young people from abuse. His arguments boil down to three:
* The kids are doing it anyway.
* Current laws criminalise teenagers.
* Young people under 16 have the right to decide when to have sex.
Actually, in making the last claim Tatchell puts no lower age limit. This fits with his recipe for protecting kids from peer pressure and paedophiles: “giving them frank, high quality sex and relationship education from an early age”. As we have noted elsewhere on this site recently, for some people that means nursery school.
In the end, his case seems to rest on a view of sex as the driving force and highest achievement of human life — from “an early age”. It is a view that some adults may find convenient but which common sense rejects as contrary to the good of children and society. Thus the editors of Big Think conclude:
Why We Should Reject This
Of course there will always be underage people who have sex, but that doesn’t mean the law should condone it. Sex is a very complicated part of human behavior that is too nuanced for young people to understand. In fact, studies have shown that people, especially girls, who have sex at a young age often regret it. One study in New Zealand found that 70% of girls who had sex before the age of 16 wished they hadn’t done so. In a column for Telegraph, writer David Lindsay argues, “sex is for people who can cope with the consequences, physical and otherwise. In a word, adults.”
>‘Lower age of consent’ says gay rights campaigner<
All part of their agenda from the start....
The 1972 Gay Rights Platform
#7-Repeal of all laws governing the age of sexual consent.
http://www.article8.org/docs/general/platform.htm
Are you reading one of the Anne Perry novels, or a nonfiction book?
Because the perverted degenerates cannot have children through their deviant unions, they seek to make all children their field of recruitments. When will we the people say enough? ... Yeah, I know this particular degenrate pervert is in the UK, but the degenerate community is becoming a world-wide phenomenon ... well, except where they realize they could lose their heads for it.
But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
[18] they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
[19] It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
[20] But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
[21] keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
[22] And convince some, who doubt;
[23] save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
[24]
Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
[25] to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
| Epistle Of Saint Jude | Chapter 1:17......
An open hunting season on these buggers could be fun too.
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Well, since homosexual activists in the early 70s admitted that they wanted the elimination of all age of consent laws, this should not surprise anyone.
In around 1994 I got in an argument with some neighbors who pounded on my door at 10 PM, outraged that I had a bumper sticker opposing the state referendum about homosexual domestic partners, or homo-sex-ed in schools (can't remember exactly), they wanted to yell and argue with me.
One of the points I brought up (it just so happened I had xeroxed a bunch of homosexual agenda and lifestyle facts I had planned to hand out at some homosexual gathering) was how the plan was to eliminate the age of consent. The homosexual neighbors were fuming - and said something like "Oh, that was in the beginning. Then we all realized people weren't ready for that. So we're just going for lowering it a little."
One of their goals is indeed eliminating the age of consent, they just want to lower it bit by bit.
Seems like liberalism is running on less than half a brain!
True.
And just who is SHOCKED that queers want younger boys to consent to sexual relations? These creeps are speaking with their outside voices and we are not horse whipping them?
Ann Perry, but my background is clinical.
I have a hard time reading her novel knowing what children do endure in real life.
It must be horrifying. I skipped parts of the novel so I wouldn’t know.
Exactly. The key link is both are mentally diseased. Since sexual activity is the ultimate focus of the 'homosexuals' life it serves as yet another proof that homosexuality is a mental illness.
In MA, sex advocates who want to go into schools and talk to little kids about the joys of Gay sex do not have to undergo CORI (criminal) background checks. But if Kiwanis wants to read Good Night Moon, we do.
How about we just hang pedophiles?
Bingo.
Peter Tatchell plugged for this change in America... just a little bit surprising in view of this year of paedophilia scandals and his campaign against Pope Benedict's visit to the UK -- one of the reasons being the Pope's alleged "cover up" of clerical sexual abuse of children? By a tortured logic Tatchell claims that a lower age of consent is "the best way" to protect young people from abuse.thanks markomalley.
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