LifeSiteNews.com – September 1, 2010
s Leading Gay Activist Calls for Lowering of Age of Consent to 14
By Hilary White
LONDON – 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.”
“The Age of Sexual Consent” is a Bad Way to Fight Pedophilia
One of the main issues social conservatives in Canada and elsewhere have been championing has been the raising of the age of sexual consent – in Canada from 14 to 18. (It was raised to 16 a couple of years ago.) Sex with anybody below the age of consent was identified as pedophilia, a grotesque offense against vulnerable children.