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- From: kanga.caltech.edu!magney (Michael Agney)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Fundamentalist Nightmare
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 20:29:46 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- In article <13230@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
- writes:
- > Because no other group but homosexuals is trying to legitimate
- > child molestation.
-
- AAAAAARRGH!!!! HOW many times is this thing going to come up!?!?!
-
- Sorry about the emotional outburst, folks - I just read a McElwaine
- posting.
-
- As I understand it, the grain of truth this outrageous lie comes from is
- that some people who happen to be homosexual believe that the statutory
- rape laws in this country should be repealed, as arbitrarily defining
- the age of consent at 18 denies reasonable rights to perfectly emotionally
- mature people just a bit under that age. I happen to disagree with this,
- because trying to base consent age on emotional maturity would raise
- enormous legal problems, but it is NOT an attempt to legitimize child
- molestation.
-
- I could be wrong - anyone have any more accurate info?
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