<p>Lee Corbin stunned me by writing (and Rafal by agreeing):<br>When I was a kid in southern California in the 1960s, there<br>were two men who lived across the street. They kept very<br>much to themselves, but were always courteous and polite<br>
whenever anyone would talk to them. Tongues in the<br>neighborhood eventually began to wag, but fortunately<br>no one thought of interfering. I don't even know if they<br>were officially commiting a "crime" in those days, but in<br>
many states, they may very well have been arrested.</p>
<div>But you'll say, "well, consenting adults is okay". This<br>phrase "consenting adults" is of relatively recent vintage<br>and was and is nothing more than a rationalization. Times<br>change, and when we consult our feelings now, perhaps<br>
we get different answers than we did then.</div>
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<div>"Oh, but they're only *children*!", the cry will then go out.<br>"They don't know what is best for them, their parents don't<br>know what is best for them, and their friends and neighbors<br>
don't know what is best for them!</div>
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<div>"But *WE* know what is best for them, and we have the<br>men, badges, dogs, and guns to prove it!"<br>>>></div></div>
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<div>Sorry. I will not compare two *adult* gay men living together to 14 and 15 year-old teenage girls who were brainwashed by their parent's religious cult/commune to enter into sexual relationships & have babies with with men generally a number of *decades* older than they are, while the young men *their own age* have been "cock-blocked" by the older males who are in positions of power and want to horde the females for themselves. </div>
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<div>I realize this was "how things were" for millennia among humans, but we have matured/become more enlightened over the last century or so. These men are horrific exploiters of the young teenage girls in their community and they deserve to be jailed a long time for it. </div>
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<div>John Grigg<br></div>
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