WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1990
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HOMOSEXUALS WILL COME TO TERMS WITH SOCIETY
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DECRIMINALISATION WILL ENABLE
BLACKMAIL
NOT HOMOSEXUALS PRACTISING
TO WITH THEIR OWN COME AND TO
TO TERMS LIVE IN FEAR OF
REMOVE SOCIAL STIGMA, SEXUALITY AND WITH SOCIETY, THOUGH IT MAY NOT THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE, THE HON ELIZABETH WONG, SAID THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
IN
IN THE DEBATE ON OF THE MOTION IN SUPPORT SPEAKING
BY CONSENTING MALE OF
HOMOSEXUAL ACTS PRIVATE DECRIMINALISATION
APPEAR ΤΟ "OBJECTIONS TO DECRIMINALISATION ADULTS, MRS WONG SAID:
HOMOSEXUAL COME FROM THE BELIEF THAT IT MIGHT LEAD TO AN EXPLOSION OF ACTIVITIES, THEREBY DESTABILISING SOCIETY; THAT IT COULD IN TURN
LAWMAKERS HAVE AND THAT TO THE SPREAD OF AIDS VIRUS; PROTECT THE COMMUNITY FROM CORRUPTING INFLUENCES."
LEAD A DUTY TO
INTERPLAY BETWEEN.
WONG
COMMENTING THAT HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOUR WAS AN GENETIC BIOLOGICAL MAKE-UP AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS, MRS SAID AETIOLOGICAL STUDIES SUGGESTED THAT THIS SEXUALITY COULD BE BOTH NATURAL AND/OR NURTURED; AND WAS EITHER EGO-SYNTONIC OR EGO-DYSTONIC.
THAT WE CAN SUGGEST
PREVENT TO "THERE IS
EVIDENCE NO
LAW, ANY MORE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOUR MERELY BY PUNISHING IT UNDER THE
SHE SAID. THAN WE CAN PREVENT ADULTERY BY STATUTORY PENALTY,
"THUS, IF ONE LIQUIDATES THE RHETORIC OF THE OBJECTIONS RAISED, IT IS EASY TO SEE THAT THE LAW IS ARCHAIC.
"TO TAKE REFUGE BEHIND THE STATUS QUO IS TO ESCAPE REALITY
SHE SAID. EVADE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY,
AND
OCCUPIED A FAIR MRS WONG POINTED OUT THAT WHILST HOMOSEXUALS
TOOK PLACE TRANSMISSION PROPORTION
THE REPORTED AIDS CASES, OF
MALE TO FEMALE AND ALSO FEMALE TO MALE. HETEROSEXUALLY AS WELL, FROM
HAD BEEN LONG KNOWN "ON EXPERT AUTHORITY, I BELIEVE THAT IT
AND, INDEED, THAT AIDS CAN BE ACQUIRED THROUGH HETEROSEXUAL CONTACT,
IF EVOLUTION CAN ᎢᎻᎪᎢ . NO VIRUS SAID IT HAS BEEN
SHE SAID. TRANSMITTED ONLY BY HOMOSEXUALS,
ACCORDANCE IN
RATE COULD BE ACHIEVED
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WITH THE
RECOMMENDATION, PREVENTION OF AIDS AND
THROUGH
WORLD
SURVIVE
IN
HEALTH
ORGANISATION
AND OTHER
REDUCTION IN THE INFECTION
AND PUBLICITY
EDUCATION
MEASURES TO MODIFY SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR.
"HOMOSEXUAL
ACTIVITIES
PER SE DISEASE,
ARE AND
NOT BELIEVED
TO
BE
IT WOULD BE
WRONG
ΤΟ
THE
SHE SAID.
RESPONSIBLE FOR SPREADING THE ASSUME THAT THE DISEASE CAN BE PREVENTED BY THE MERE EXISTENCE OF LAW WHICH IS PURPORTED TO PUNISH HOMOSEXUAL ACTS,
MRS WONG STRESSED THAT
DECRIMINALISATION SHOULD
NOT
IT WAS OF
BE MISTAKEN
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THAT CONDONE
IMPORTANCE CARDINAL
AS A MOVE TO
OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR WHICH WAS REPUGNANT TO THE COMMUNITY.
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