WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1990
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REALITY CANNOT BE IGNORED : CS
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DID
ACTS
ANYONE WHO VOTED IN FAVOUR OF DECRIMINALISING HOMOSEXUAL
THE BEHAVIOUR,
CHIEF NOT SIGNIFY THAT HE CONDONED HOMOSEXUAL
THE MOTION SECRETARY, THE HON SIR DAVID FORD, SAID WHEN HE WOUND UP DEBATE ON HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
"A
VOTE IN FAVOUR SIMPLY SIGNIFIES RECOGNITION MORAL CODES MAY DIFFER AND CAN CO-EXIST IN A SOCIETY.
THAT PERSONAL
OF APPROVAL, IT "NOR DOES A VOTE IN FAVOUR SIGNIFY A STATE SIGNIFIES ONLY RECOGNITION OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S RIGHT TO PERSONAL CHOICE IN HIS PRIVATE SEXUAL PRACTICES.
THE
"A VOTE IN FAVOUR DOES NOT SIGNIFY P'RSONAL ACCEPTANCE OF
WHETHER SUCH RIGHTNESS OR WRONGNESS OF SUCH ACT, BUT ONLY SUGGESTS
MERIT THE ACTS COMMITTED BETWEEN CONSENTING ADULTS AND IN PRIVATE
ENFORCEMENT," THE CHIEF MOBILISATION OF THE FULL MACHINERY OF LAW SECRETARY SAID.
NOTING THAT WE COULD NOT LET TIME STAND STILL ON SIR
LEAVING THINGS AS THEY DAVID SAID THAT TO SUGGEST THE REALITY.
THIS ISSUE,
IGNORED
WERE
"BECAUSE IF WE VOTE TODAY AGAINST THIS MOTION, WE CANNOT IGNORE THE LAW AS IT NOW STANDS.
PERSONNEL IN "WE WILL HAVE TO REDEPLOY THE POLICE AND OTHER
EVIDENCE, IN THE THE TASK OF INVESTIGATION AND THE GATHERING OF
CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AND THE TRIAL OF PEOPLE WHO ARE COMMITTING THAT OFFENCE.
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"THIS WILL MEAN THAT EVERY ALLEGATION, REGARDLESS OF WHO
TO BE PURSUED, HE IT OR AGAINST WHOM IT IS LEVELLED, WILL HAVE ADDED.
THE MOTION WAS PASSED.
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