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The age of consent and Coalition 'family values' : Comments
By David Skidmore, published 14/3/2005David Skidmore argues that there must be equality between the age of consent for men and women, gay and straight.
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The orgy of mutual backslapping associated with the Prostitution Reform Bill (being passed) in New Zealand, featured lots of gay activists, brothel-keepers and no working prostitutes. The gay lobby allied itself to pimps and criminal gangs.
Gay marriage is used as a tool to progress a raft of other policies related to prostitution, pornography, public sex, lowering of age of consent etc. At this stage of the global campaigning game everybody has informants in the other camps.
We used 'planted' informants in Australia and New Zealand. Gay people wanting to walk the steps of a public building to register a civic union are irrelevant to the issues. I work on queer agenda issues only to oppose NAMBLA style legislation.
Litigating the Boy Scouts of America, or attacking the institution of marriage, are important to pro-paedophile activism. The NAMBLA philosophy has to destroy moral and ethical orthodoxy enshrined in what might be described as inherited establishment.
Similarly, (some) feminists decided that pornography and prostitution were good issues to shatter perspectives focused on protection. To be protected, one has to be 'weaker' and feminism does not really like the basic ideas of female & weak in association.
I have listened to bizarre narratives on 'temple prostitution' and the emotional intimacy and rewards associated with pornography etc. which would have a percentile support base in the general female population of zero. All of which is to miss the point.
The average gay marriage campaign is rarely solely about gay marriage. It is often about kicking out the sides of the building so it can be reconstructed with values which are the antithesis of legitimate morality and liberty.
The issue is often about NAMBLA style legislation, public sex, prostitution, drugs reform, access to very young sexual partners, and to progress these ideas they need to attack 'Victorian values', 'Christianity' or 'conservatives'.