[Brit_Guy]

17 years? Sorry, at the risk of attracting the mirth of everyone and sounding like a bleeding liberal.... that sounds harsh - even taliban like.

You wouldn't get 17 years for rape with violence or murder over here (you should but thats not the issue).


Flame away! /[Firepants on]

[calrighty]

I detest homosexuality, but I have to agree with you on this one.

[NapkinUser]

You like in England (I'm guessing from your screen name,) and England is weak on crime.

[ROTB]

> that sounds harsh

Not really. Gay sex is pretty far down the road towards no morals whatsoever, morals being to society what oil is to an engine.

You're treating this like an unfortunate oopsie that can't be helped, rather than a tragedy for both that was the result of many poor decisions by both.

Such people could rationalize any wrong, which is why the law was written in the first place.

I have asked this before, and I'll ask it again. If what is "good" builds society up, and what is "bad" destroys society, what is "good" about gay sex?

1) promotes promiscuity = marriage devalued as institution (1/3 of all kids have a venereal disease of some kind)
2) results in no children = workforce not replaced
3) disease transmission = health care costs spiral
4) contempt for Christ = contempt for all the virtues of the Bible, all of which build society up (faith, love, forgiveness, hard work, study, charity, ...)

A person can't rise above sin without Christ. HIS strength helps you do it. Trying to be a Christian in your own strength is a frustrating excercise in futility.

[R. Scott]

You wouldn't get 17 years for rape with violence or murder over here (you should but thats not the issue).

The average time served in the USA for murder was 14 years (USDJ – 1991). Check by individual States shows time served in 2001 –2002 to be the same.

[SouthernFreebird]

The criminals over here never actually have to serve the full amount of time. So when they say 17 years they mean 3 or 4.

[Antoninus]

17 years? Sorry, at the risk of attracting the mirth of everyone and sounding like a bleeding liberal.... that sounds harsh - even taliban like.

Didn't your country recently lower the age of consent for homo butt-sex to 12? Considering homos reproduce by molesting children, this seems like a suicidal idea to me.

Homolesters--which have utterly infested my Church--should be punished very severely. Seventeen years is probably not enough for this guy. I might go as far as Justinianic law in terms of punishing homolesters--castration.