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   There is an old maxim - attributed to the Jesuits - that if you   
   school a child for the first six or seven years of its life, it   
   doesn't matter who has it for the rest. The age of consent in   
   Britain is now sixteen. Up until recently the age of consent for   
   homosexual acts was eighteen. The Labour Government, heavily   
   influenced by both the homosexuals in its own upper echelons   
   (19) and the homosexual lobby in general, was intent on lowering   
   the age of consent to sixteen on the grounds that not to do so   
   would be to perpetuate homophobia. It did so in spite of a   
   revolt in the Lords led by Baroness Young.   
      
   In February 1994 when a vote to lower the age of consent for   
   sodomy to sixteen was lost, hundreds of militant homosexuals   
   stormed Parliament and abused MPs. This was in spite of the   
   House voting to lower the age of consent to eighteen, which   
   under the circumstances was certainly a concession to   
   perversion. Peter Tatchell was quoted in the Times thus: “They   
   have no respect for us, so we will have no respect for   
   Parliament.” He also threatened a major campaign of civil   
   disobedience. (20) About ten arrests were reported. (21)   
      
   In November 1998, when the government tried again to lower the   
   age of consent for homosexual acts, the Lords prevailed. One   
   magazine reported that Tatchell wanted to push for it to be   
   lowered to fourteen. Other members of his group, OutRage, voted   
   to keep it at sixteen (for then) for fear of alienating the   
   public (and exposing their true agenda). (22)   
      
   Two years later, a letter published in the Daily Telegraph and   
   signed by nine doctors headed by Lady McEwen, C.A.B. Johnston   
   and Professor Gordon Stewart warned the government of the   
   Physical dangers of unnatural sex. Two of the signatories had   
   Islamic names, (23) and doubtless all Moslem doctors (along with   
   the great majority of all other religions and none) shared the   
   same sentiments. The signatories argued that by lowering the age   
   of consent for homosexual acts the government would be failing   
   in its duty to protect young boys. Unfortunately, the government   
   and the homosexual lobby prevailed, and the age of consent for   
   homosexual acts was indeed lowered.   
      
   Now, Tatchell in particular has come out of the closet. (24)   
   This year he has published a paper calling for the age of   
   consent to be lowered to fourteen for all sexual acts. (25) Two   
   examples of his sophistry from this paper will suffice:   
      
   “Two 14 year olds who have a mutually agreed relationship risk   
   maximum penalties ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment...”   
      
   By the same token, the maximum penalty for shoplifting is seven   
   years imprisonment. Who in modern Britain has ever been   
   sentenced to seven years for simple theft? (26)   
      
   One reason Tatchell advocates lowering the age of consent is to   
   cure the sexual illiteracy of the young. Sex advice by teachers   
   is said to be vague, euphemistic and even useless. “They never   
   dare promote the obvious: oral sex and mutual masturbation as   
   safer alternatives to intercourse”. This is a bit like promoting   
   grievous bodily harm as a safer alternative to murder, but the   
   duplicity of the Organised Homosexual Movement knows no bounds.   
      
   The doctors who signed the letter to the Daily Telegraph pointed   
   out that teenagers often have (what they believe to be)   
   homosexual desires of a transient nature.   
      
   Young boys in particular may be attracted to other boys and   
   young men for reasons that have little or nothing to do with   
   sex. Not all of us are equally endowed with good looks, fine   
   physique, intelligence, personality, wealth, or even something   
   as simple as dress sense. This may lead to envy, which can be   
   easily confused with desire. With proper guidance or even with   
   none, the vast majority of teenagers will come through this   
   phase unscathed. (27) With improper guidance they may become   
   convinced that they are really gay and should come out as such.   
      
   Because homosexuals can't breed they must recruit in order to   
   perpetuate their perversion, and the younger their victims are   
   caught the better. Now that the age of consent for homosexual   
   acts has been lowered to sixteen, Tatchell and his friends want   
   it lowered to fourteen. If they get that they will demand it be   
   lowered to twelve, then ten. The end result is that predatory   
   homosexual paedophiles will have carte blanche to snatch young   
   boys off the streets and do with them what they will with total   
   impunity. This may sound hysterical, but there is a paedophile   
   movement in this country and worldwide which would like to see   
   exactly that. And it is an acknowledged fact that in Britain at   
   least the paedophile movement has its roots firmly in the gay   
   movement. (28)   
      
   During his campaign against homosexuality in pre-World War Two   
   Edinburgh, William Merrilees was shocked at the number of young   
   boys who had been ensnared by these perverts. In his   
   aforementioned memoirs, he wrote: “I was astonished at the   
   number of boys between the ages of fourteen and sixteen engaged   
   in this unpleasant business, some of them were effeminates, but   
   most of them were really male prostitutes.” (29) It should be   
   borne in mind that at this time, and for three decades after,   
   homosexuality was a criminal offence, yet this was apparently no   
   serious deterrent to those who would wilfully corrupt the young.   
      
   It is important for everyone to realise that there is no such   
   thing as gay youth; there are no homosexual teenagers. Even for   
   those who succumb to their inner demons and experiment with or   
   engage in homosexual practices there is hope. The young who   
   stray from the straight and narrow can be reformed, the same way   
   souls can be saved.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)