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Britain’s Leading Gay Activist Calls for Lowering of Age of Consent to 14
Life Site News ^ | Wednesday September 1, 2010 | Hilary White

Posted on 09/02/2010 12:34:11 PM PDT by GonzoII

Wednesday September 1, 2010


Britain’s Leading Gay Activist Calls for Lowering of Age of Consent to 14

By Hilary White

LONDON, September 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of Britain’s leading homosexualist activists has called again for the lowering of the age of sexual consent from 16 to 14, saying that this will reduce incidents of sexual abuse of young people. Peter Tatchell, founder of the group OutRage!, wrote on the website Big Think, “Whether we like it or not, many teenagers have their first sexual experience around the ages of 14 or 15.”

“If we want to protect young people, and I do, the best way to do this is not by threatening them with arrest, but by giving them frank, high quality sex and relationship education from an early age.

“This includes empowering them with the skills, knowledge and confidence to say no to unwanted sexual advances and to report sex abusers. Compared to the blanket criminalization of sexually-active under-age youth, this empowerment strategy is a more effective way to protect young people from peer pressure and pedophiles.”

A higher age of consent actually puts young teens at greater risk of abuse by “reinforcing the idea that young people under 16 have no sexual rights,” Tatchell said. “They signal that a young person is not capable of making a rational, moral choice about when to have sex.”

“Guilt and shame about sex also increase the likelihood of molestation by encouraging the furtiveness and secrecy on which abuse thrives,” he added.

“Despite what the puritans and sex-haters say, underage sex is mostly consenting, safe, and fun,” Tatchell said. “If there is harm caused, it is usually not as a result of sex, per se, but because of emotional abuse within relationships and because of unsafe sex, which can pass on infections and make young girls pregnant when they are not ready for motherhood.”

OutRage! has long lobbied for the lowering of the age of consent in Britain, which was already lowered for homosexual acts from age 21 in 1994 and again in 2000 to 16, after heavy lobbying by homosexualist activists.

Carolyn Moynihan, an Auckland journalist with a special interest in family issues, responded at Mercatornet, saying it is “a little bit surprising” that Tatchell has made the suggestion at the time when he is part of a protest against Pope Benedict, whom he accuses of failing to protect young people from sexual predators.

Moynihan said, “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.”

She cited studies that have shown that young people, especially girls, who have sex at early ages often regret it. She quotes Daily Telegraph columnist David Lindsay saying, “Sex is for people who can cope with the consequences, physical and otherwise. In a word, adults.”

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To: GonzoII

Yep, seems fags recruit young boys all the time.
Guess this prevert just doesn’t want to go to jail for it.


41 posted on 09/02/2010 1:13:42 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) ")
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To: GonzoII

Selfish and hedonistic epicentre of the culture of death indeed...


42 posted on 09/02/2010 1:20:27 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: GonzoII

I’ve got an alternate plan. Get that 16 year old age of consent to homosexuality back up to at least 18. Start making some arrests, and get these folks behind bars ASAP.


43 posted on 09/02/2010 1:20:31 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (UniTea! It's not Rs vs Ds you dimwits. It's Cs vs Ls. Cut the crap & lets build for success.)
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To: KansasGirl
Coming to the USA soon.

Already here, and entrenched in the halls of academe, the courts, etc.

44 posted on 09/02/2010 1:24:09 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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45 posted on 09/02/2010 1:26:56 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: GonzoII

It is one thing to consider a “Romeo and Juliet” law that decriminalizes (otherwise) underage sex when both partners are close in age, e.g., two 15 year olds.

It is quite another to flat-out lower the age of consent to 14 without regard to the age of the other(s) involved.

No thanks.


46 posted on 09/02/2010 1:36:19 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: GonzoII
"saying that this will reduce incidents of sexual abuse of young people."

Why not then lower the age of consent to <1 year olds, which would do away with the problem of pedophilia entirely? Why not do away with rape as a crime, which would solve the problem or rape?

47 posted on 09/02/2010 1:40:37 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: GonzoII

Unnngh!


48 posted on 09/02/2010 1:41:18 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: GonzoII
"this will reduce incidents of sexual abuse of young people."

Why don't we decriminalize the beating of homosexuals. This will decrease the incidents of anti homosexual hate crimes.

49 posted on 09/02/2010 2:02:17 PM PDT by magslinger (DISCLAIMER: No liberals were harmed in the making of this post. I'm sorry and will try harder.)
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To: GonzoII

Uhhh...would that be 14 MONTHS??!! NAMBLA types don’t LIKE to wait 14 years!!


50 posted on 09/02/2010 2:04:18 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: frogjerk

Absolutely correct. This is the philosophy of a predator.


51 posted on 09/02/2010 2:21:35 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: avacado

Thanks for those pics.

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52 posted on 09/02/2010 2:41:33 PM PDT by jimt
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To: wagglebee

And 14 years old is just a “step in the right direction” for these sicko fiends.


53 posted on 09/02/2010 3:28:15 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: EagleUSA

The Britian underside has always been interested in gaining access to little boys. Now that underside is out of the closet and loud and proud. Boys are going to be harmed by this soical engineering ram rod on the West.


54 posted on 09/02/2010 3:29:04 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: GonzoII
Homosexuals have led the charge to normalize pedophilia. The APA, at the behest of homosexuals, came out with a “medical” determination a few years back that pedophilia was only pedophilia or wrong, if the child did not enjoy it. They had to back peddle on that one but it will come up again. Just like when they were forced by homosexual bullies to remove homosexuality from their list of perversions. I debated a woman on the radio, around 8 years ago?, who edited ‘One Teenager in 10”, Ann Heron? When I asked her why she included so many stories of teenagers fondly remembering their molestation by pedophiles, some as young as two years old, she stammered and said, “Well I'm not saying that there aren’t heterosexuals out there who engage in intergenerational sex”. something like that. But there you have the sanitized new name for pedophilia. Intergenerationals a good thing right?
55 posted on 09/03/2010 2:44:40 AM PDT by ethical
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To: GonzoII

We all knew this was coming, just not so soon.


56 posted on 09/03/2010 4:34:54 AM PDT by fwdude (Anita Bryant was right.)
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To: GonzoII

There isn’t a male homo out there that wasn’t molested by an adult male. This is part of the lifestyle and either the sodomites gain access by lowering the age barrier or else they adopt boys.


57 posted on 09/03/2010 8:16:53 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot ((Read "The Grey Book" for an alternative to corruption in DC))
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
I suspect there is a pedophile hiding in every queer, to Hell with what the "experts" say!

It appears that the "real experts" agree with you Swampsniper:

Kevin Bishop, an admitted pederast (pedophile), is promoting the work of the North American Man - Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) in South Africa. Bishop, who was molested at the age of six, is also an admitted homosexual who is blunt about the relationship between homosexuality and pedophilia. “Scratch the average homosexual and you will find a pedophile,” said Bishop in an interview with the Electronic Mail & Guardian ( June 30, 1997).
Link to Homosexual Behavior and Pedophilia

58 posted on 09/04/2010 7:42:11 AM PDT by aSeattleConservative
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