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DECRIMINALISING HOMOSEXUAL ACTS WOULD HAVE UNIMAGINABLE CONSEQUENCES
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THE DECRIMINALISATION OF HOMOSEXUAL CONSENTING ADULTS
ACTS IN PRIVATE BETWEEN WOULD OPEN THE FLOODGATES LEADING
HON DAVID CHEUNG SAID
IN
ΤΟ THE
THE CONSEQUENCES, UNIMAGINABLE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
MR CHEUNG WOULD WERE
OPPOSING THE MOTION IN THE DEBATE ON HOMOSEXUALITY, SAID THE VALUE AND LIFESTYLE OF A MINORITY GROUP OF HOMOSEXUALS
THROUGH SOCIETY IF THEREBY BE DISSEMINATED
DECRIMINALISATION
ALLOWED.
LIFESTYLE OR ARE HOMOSEXUALS, THEN TERM DAMAGING
"IF ADOLESCENTS ARE EXPOSED TO A HOMOSEXUAL EFFECTIVELY INFLUENCED BY THOSE WHO ARE THEMSELVES THIS MAY AFFECT THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND HAVE LONG EFFECTS ON THE YOUTHS, HE SAID.
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THE LAW
HE SAID ALTHOUGH
REFORM COMMISSION HAD SAID THAT LEGAL APPROVAL, TO THE DECRIMINALISATION DID NOT NECESSARILY IMPLY YOUNG MINDS, IT WOULD PASS A DEADLY-WRONG-YET-STRAIGHT-FORWARD MESSAGE THAT SUCH ACTS WERE ACCEPTABLE TO SOCIETY AND THEREFORE BE PRACTISED,
COULD
THAT
MR CHEUNG ARGUED
BY DECRIMINALISATION,
IT HAND, WOULD BE CONTRADICTING ITSELF: ON THE ONE
SEX EDUCATION MORAL AND PROPER
SCHOOLS BUT, IN ENCOURAGED PERMISSIVENESS OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTS.
THE ENCOURAGED
GOVERNMENT
ON
MORB THE OTHER,
HE
SAID THAT
DECRIMINALISATION
OF HOMOSEXUAL
ACTS WOULD AS THE MOVE ALSO OPEN THE FLOODGATE OF VERY DAMAGING OPPORTUNITIES,
RIGHTS WOULD GIVE RISE TO OPPORTUNITY FOR SERIOUS ATTEMPTS TO SECURE
CLAIMING SPOUSAL STATUS FOR HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS TO MARRY ONE ANOTHER, CLAIMING
SOCIAL BENEFITS, AND FOR TAX AND
ADOPTING AND RAISING CHILDREN.
FURTHER, THERE WAS THE AIDS FACTOR.
THAT HE
WANTED A CLEAR MR CHEUNG STRESSED BACKED UP BY LEGAL CONSTRAINTS TO BE MAINTAINED.
MORAL STANDARD
THAT HOMOSEXUALITY
"THIS WILL GIVE A CLEAR MESSAGE TO SOCIETY IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF BEHAVIOUR FROM SOCIETY'S POINT OF VIEW.
"IT WILL ALSO PREVENT THE FLOODGATE MIGHT LEAD TO ALL KINDS OF UNDESIRABLE POSSIBILITIES.
WHICH
FROM BEING OPENED
FAVOURED PEOPLE
THE DECRIMINALISATION MUCH AS HE SUPPORTED THE SEEN AS AN INSURANCE OR A
ON
NOTING THAT SOME BASIS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, MR CHEUNG SAID AS BILL OF RIGHTS, THE BILL MUST NOT BE PROTECTIVE UMBRELLA FOR WRONGDOINGS.
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FROM WHATEVER ANGLE WE LOOK AT THE ISSUE, HAS DOES NOT GIVE HIM/HER THE RIGHT TO DO WHAT IS UNACCEPTABLE," HE SAID.
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A PERSON THE RIGHT
WRONG OR SOCIALLY
SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO ALL-OUT PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN ΤΟ COME FORWARD TO GET
MR CHEUNG PROPOSED THAT HOMOSEXUALS SEEK PSYCHOTHERAPY. HE SUGGESTED THAT AN SHOULD BE MOUNTED TO ENCOURAGE HOMOSEXUALS HELP, SO AS TO CHANGE THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION.
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