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WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1990

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THAT WHATEVER

FOR THEM

THE

MR CHEONG ARGUED THAT IF ONE ACCEPTED THE LOGIC ACT TWO CONSENTING ADULTS PERFORMED IN PRIVATE WAS A MATTER ONLY AND NOT FOR ANYONE ELSE, THEN THE SAME LOGIC SHOULD APPLY TO ACT OF BUGGERY BETWEEN TWO CONSENTING ADULTS OF WHOM ONE WAS A FEMALE, ADULTS, BE THEY POLYGAMY AND INCESTUOUS ACTS BETWEEN TWO CONSENTING MOTHER AND SON OR BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

SHOULD AN

HE ALSO DISAGREED THAT THE CURRENT LAW ON HOMOSEXUALITY RE-EXAMINED BECAUSE THE

PERFORMING OF RIGHTS

INDIVIDUALS HOMOSEXUAL ACT WERE PROTECTED BY THE FORTHCOMING HUMAN RIGHTS BILL.

BE

HE SAID THAT IF THE SAME LOGIC WAS APPLIED TO OTHER ISSUES THAT SOME STARTLING AND PERHAPS HAD A MORAL UNDERTONE, IT WOULD LEAD TO

THE UNACCEPTABLE CONCLUSIONS; AND THERE WAS A DANGER THAT, ARMED WITH

KONG MIGHT BECOME AN ANARCHIC AND "SHIELD OF HUMAN RIGHTS", HONG PERMISSIVE SOCIETY WITH LOOSE MORAL VALUES.

HE SAID,

"SOCIETY IS

AGGREGATE

MORE THAN NO

THE

OF ITS

FEEL PEOPLE

AND BEHAVE IN PRIVATE OR INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS AND HOW

OF WHAT IS RIGHT OR WRONG PUBLIC REFLECTS THE GENERAL PERCEPTION WHICH IN TURN DETERMINES THE SOCIETY'S OVERALL VALUES".

WAS

A WIDE.

MR CHEONG SAID HE FELT STRONGLY THAT IF THE ADMINISTRATION SERIOUS ABOUT INTRODUCING A BILL ON HOMOSEXUALITY, VIEWS FROM CROSS SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY SHOULD BE SOUGHT.

NOR

HE BELIEVED THAT HOMOSEXUAL ACTS WERE NOT WIDELY PRACTISED

AND THAT IT WIDELY ACCEPTED BY THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN HONG KONG,

WE HAD TO LEGALISE THEM BECAUSE WOULD NOT BE RIGHT TO ARGUE THAT OTHER DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES LIKE THE UK AND U.S. HAD DONE So.

"THIS LINE OF THINKING MAY GIVE THE COMMUNITY IN THAT PROGRESS AND DEMOCRACY HOMOSEXUAL ACTS AS BEING LEGAL, HE SAID.

WRONG IMPRESSION TO THE IS EQUATED WITH ACCEPTING

THE YOUNGER "ALSO IT POSES AN IMPORTANT QUESTION THAT WHETHER

RUN A GREATER RISK OF MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY WOULD BE LIABLE TO

GOADED INTO TAKING PART IN THE BEING EXPOSED TO, ENTICED OR EVEN

CONTEMPORARIES PERFORMANCE OF THE ACT SO THAT THEY CAN PROVE TO THEIR

HE ADDED, THAT THEY ARE PROGRESSIVE, LIBERAL, DEMOCRATIC AND WITH IT,

CONCLUDING, MR CHEONG SAID: "EACH AND EVERY SOCIETY HAS ITS OWN NOT READILY CULTURAL BACKGROUND, AND ITS OWN MORAL VALUES. WE SHOULD

CHANGE SIMPLY TO CONFORM FORSAKE OUR OWN MORAL VALUES TO OPT FOR A WITH OTHER VALUES PREVAILING ELSEWHERE."

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