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To: Rudder
Do you really believe you can teach someone to become homosexual?

A search I did on google that I did recently has given me pause to accept that it cannot be taught. I searched "age of consent" and about half of the hits were gay sites.

It has cause me to wonder why the age of consent is such an important topic to gays.

35 posted on 07/02/2003 10:34:53 AM PDT by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: VRWC_minion
It has cause me to wonder why the age of consent is such an important topic to gays.

I can answer this for you. Because in many states and/or nations, the age of consent laws have been different for opposite-sex & same-sex relations. It's considered another form of antigay discrimination & is a high priority at least amongst international activists (especially since many nations which have long-since repealed sodomy laws still have disparate age-of-consent laws - usually 21 for same-sex & 16 for opposite-sex - as their only remaining discriminatory statute, aside from marriage).

37 posted on 07/02/2003 10:42:24 AM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: VRWC_minion
...why the age of consent is such an important topic to gays.

It has something to do with the concept of "prey."

80 posted on 07/02/2003 4:56:44 PM PDT by Rudder
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