(September 11, 2016 at 10:46 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: The double standard is all the people that came out in defense of a certain gay politician having sex with an underage boy. At first everyone played dumb, then they began making excuses.

The irony is it was considered 'slanderous' when HE was referred to as a pedophile...

If the boy was underage, it was pedophilia by definition, and was a crime. Where's the double standard?

Quote:Notice how statutory rape is suddenly a SUPERFLUOUS law when it involves a gay man?

Also some victim blaming.

It bothers me that I'm agreeing with you so far. Where's the catch?

Quote:Note that Milk recorded his age as 18.  It is credible that the boy said he was, and if you look at photographs, he looks all of 18.

He didn't look like a child, so the accusation of pedophilia collapses.

(this quote wasn't from Huggy btw) Yeah, no. I'm with the X-tian guy on this one. There are plenty of hot 15 year-old girls that are totally fuckable-looking. But the "I thought she was 19. Hell, she SAID she was 19" defence is going to be VERY hard to succeed with, unless she produced fake ID. It's up to an adult entering a sexual situation to do due process in determining that a young-looking sex partner is of legal age.

Quote:Of course! What other double standard would I be referring to on the subject of adults having sex with underage teens?

You could be talking about church leaders, especially in the Catholic church, having sex with underage teens and then just getting transferred when caught, and rarely facing legal prosecution. That is also a pretty serious double standard.

I'm not aware of the case you refer to, Huggy (seems I've avoided it until now).

However, as far as I'm concerned any adult who engages with sex with an underage person (younger than the age of consent), should be locked up, no matter who they are and what position they may hold in society. Hell, if my favourite person in the world - my father - had sex with an under age girl or boy I'd be the first to demand he be locked up.

The situation here isn't that he engaged in the molestation of the girl, for which he has been rightly locked up. The problem is that his church is demanding an apology from his VICTIM.

(September 11, 2016 at 11:39 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:

(September 11, 2016 at 11:25 pm)The_Empress Wrote: Uhhh... Pedophilia is defined as the fantasy or act of sexual activity with prepubescent children.

Cute, but I don't know why you're telling me since I wasn't the one to use the term pedophile, that was someone else... go ahead and read the thread.

I have always used the term 'under age'.

Under what age and why? The current laws of the nation that change from time to time?

Is there an objective metric you use?

(September 11, 2016 at 11:50 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:

(September 11, 2016 at 11:39 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Cute, but I don't know why you're telling me since I wasn't the one to use the term pedophile, that was someone else... go ahead and read the thread.

I have always used the term 'under age'.

Under what age and why? The current laws of the nation that change from time to time?

Is there an objective metric you use?

under the age of 18, the metric being California law.

(September 12, 2016 at 12:13 am)Huggy74 Wrote:

(September 11, 2016 at 11:50 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: Under what age and why? The current laws of the nation that change from time to time?

Is there an objective metric you use?

under the age of 18, the metric being California law.

So would your stance change if you lived in Angola where the age of consent is 12 or in Bahrain where it is 21?

(September 12, 2016 at 12:17 am)Arkilogue Wrote:

(September 12, 2016 at 12:13 am)Huggy74 Wrote: under the age of 18, the metric being California law.

So would your stance change if you lived in Angola where the age of consent is 12 or in Bahrain where it is 21?

Obviously me being a christian means I don't think a person should be having sex with anyone they aren't married to...

If you can dodge a question, you can dodge a ball!

(September 12, 2016 at 12:26 am)Huggy74 Wrote:

(September 12, 2016 at 12:17 am)Arkilogue Wrote: So would your stance change if you lived in Angola where the age of consent is 12 or in Bahrain where it is 21?

Obviously me being a christian means I don't think a person should be having sex with anyone they aren't married to...

Well obviously!
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So would your stance change if you lived in Massachusetts where the minimum age of marriage for females is 12 or in China where the minimum age for a male is 22?

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(September 12, 2016 at 12:26 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Obviously me being a christian means I don't think a person should be having sex with anyone they aren't married to...

Curious what it means to be a Christian who does not believe in religion? Sounds like jumbo shrimp...

(September 11, 2016 at 11:39 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:

(September 11, 2016 at 11:25 pm)The_Empress Wrote: Uhhh... Pedophilia is defined as the fantasy or act of sexual activity with prepubescent children.

Cute, but I don't know why you're telling me since I wasn't the one to use the term pedophile, that was someone else... go ahead and read the thread.

I have always used the term 'under age'.

Cute? Really?

I don't understand your point, then. What does a girl being raped by her pastor and being forced to apologize if she wants to return to her church have to do with Harvey Milk and the stances of people who aren't even involved in this thread?

(September 12, 2016 at 1:00 am)Arkilogue Wrote:

(September 12, 2016 at 12:26 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Obviously me being a christian means I don't think a person should be having sex with anyone they aren't married to...

Well obviously!  
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So would you stance change if you lived in Massachusetts where the minimum age of marriage for females is 12 or in China where the minimum age for a male is 22?

If it's according to the law then sure, what can I do about that? If I had a 12 year old daughter I wouldn't give MY parental consent.