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    Wednesday, December 21, 2005

    Perfectly legal


    http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2005-12-21T151550Z_01_KNE073843_RTRUKOC_0_US-SEX.xml&rpc=22

    "Criminal indecency or obscenity must rest on actual harm or a significant risk of harm to individuals or society. The Crown failed to establish this essential element of the offence. The Crown's case must therefore fail," wrote McLachlin.

    "Attitudes in themselves are not crimes, however deviant they may be or disgusting they may appear," the judges said, noting that no one had been pressured to have sex or had paid for sex in either of the cases.


    "The autonomy and liberty of members of the public was not affected by unwanted confrontation with the sexual activity in question only those already disposed to this sort of sexual activity were allowed to participate and watch," they said.

    "Attitudes in themselves are not crimes, however deviant they may be or disgusting they may appear," the judges said, noting that no one had been pressured to have sex or had paid for sex in either of the cases.

    Attitudes are not crimes?... but I think they were really doing something behind the locked doors, not just grooming attitudes.

    I have this vision of little Tommy defending himself to Mommy by saying.. "we'll it's not illegal or anything!". O well, nothing too surprising as countries move forward without a moral foundation.

    I think it is still illegal for Catholics though.

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