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] Date Posted: 12:17:56 11/22/04 Mon In reply to: Dave (UK) 's message, "..." on 12:10:38 11/22/04 Mon I can vaguely see some justification in the use of the Parliament Act for those two. The first one deals with the electoral system, and the second with consolidating the individual rights of minorities. But using it for foxhunting strikes me as being for the exact opposite purpose: restricting the individual rights of minorities. A bit sinister, that. The thought occurs, though, that if they wanted to make the age of consent the same for homosexuals as heterosexuals, then they could have proposed raising the heterosexual one into conformity with the homosexual one, i.e., 18. Alternatively, they could have gone with the Portuguese option and made both so young that no-one is worried about equality, since 12 and 13 year olds are very rarely imbued with the "Wilkes and Liberty" rhetoric! [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |