Posted on 02/08/2006 7:42:20 AM PST by Clive
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thank goodness. 14 was really bugging me!!! AND i hope they really do crack down on people who commit crimes with a gun. automatic double sentence? that sound fair to you? and i hope STIFFER sentences!!
I hardly bothered to look at the post until I noticed 14 years old!? How did they reduce the age of consent to that?
I don't wish to automatically conclude that their group is infested by pedophiles but there certainly is a curious connection.
Glad to know that the Tories might be pushing that bar back a little, however, 14/16 is still very young.
"I hardly bothered to look at the post until I noticed 14 years old!?"
Until recently, several US states had the age of consent set at 14, too. I believe all have raised to at least 16 now.
How long was the age of consent 14, is it a throwback to the old pioneer days when people married and died at a young age.
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14 has always been the age of consent here in Canada.
So it would be perfectly legal for a 40 year old man to have sex with a 16 year old?
"So it would be perfectly legal for a 40 year old man to have sex with a 16 year old?"
Yup. As it is in many states in this country.
So now a 40 year old man can legally sodomize a 16 year old boy. Of course Canada is much more "progressive" than the US.
Only the Liberals would think 14 is an acceptable age of consent.
Depends on the state. You can go to the site below, which has ages of consent, along with information on different ages for homosexual sex, in some cases.
You can click the link for each state for further explanations. In some states, the scenario you mention would be legal. In others it would not.
http://www.ageofconsent.com/ageofconsent.htm
They probably didn't reduce the age of consent to 14, it probably was always that way.
Marriages at puberty were common in pre-industrial societies, including in North America, and age-of-consent laws reflected this. In many 'Red' states, age-of-consent laws allow marriages with parental consent at 14. Oddly the 'Blue' states where once one hits 18 any sex, no matter how perverse, is 'celebrated', were the ones to first institute the fiction that sexually mature human beings who can't vote yet are 'children'.
Do you think the Supreme Court will allow those differences will be allowed to stand?
Canada: "We're #1 at being just north of the United States!"
"Do you think the Supreme Court will allow those differences will be allowed to stand?"
They probably will, but I don't know. It would take a case getting to them to find out.
From what I understand, SCOTUS upheld the Texas laws against homosexual activity, but I could be mistaken.
It's not something I follow, really. I just knew of this site from another thread.
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