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To: Lane3 who wrote (4749)	5/9/2001 10:39:36 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (3) of 6089

Nor did she find a compelling reason to keep statutes on the books which ban not only sodomy but any sexual act not designed to create a baby. My word. Those must have been fun times. That should mean about 90% of the post-pubertal population behind bars... 80% for sex, 10% for under-age, and the remaining 10% liars. Still, I wonder if any cases made it to court... I can see a great case for cross-charging witnesses for voyeurism <g> ROFL. Those are absurd. Still, in this country there are near-forgotten and unrepealed laws (often, incidentally, from the Puritan-run Commonwealth period - 1649-1660) which, for example, ban the consumption of Xmas pudding except on Xmas Day. So I guess I can't gloat. pretty much all the 'liberal' wing seems personally libertarian in most things - This seems to apply to religion, but I haven't noticed it applying to things PC. Possibly I project my own bias - I'm personally as well as politically liberal - but the LWP regulars seem more 'undecided' on the relatively rare recent occasions that PC matters have appeared, or at least opinions seem more widely spread? Happy to be corrected - on the BR with a link if it might be provocative, natch...

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