Many people of the modern age simply don't understand that sexuality is an issue of the 'private space', and was never an issue of the 'public space'.
A true centerist like me, would want a highly conservative 'public space', and a liberal 'private space'. I think all countries in the world should have 5 zones. 1) Restricted zone, or the Red zone. 2) Industrial zone, or the orange zone. 3) Commercial zone, or the yellow zone. 4) Residential zone, or the Blue zone. 5) Free zone, or the Green zone. Even if you can't eradicate all the vices on the planet, you can atleast restrict it to the 'Free zone', so that they don't bother rest of the population. Is this too hard to ask of all the Governments? --- <mjackson74@...> wrote : Family of Alan Turing to demand government pardon 49,000 other men http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/22/family-alan-turing-government-petition-pardons-gross-indecency-homosexuality http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/22/family-alan-turing-government-petition-pardons-gross-indecency-homosexuality Family of Alan Turing to demand government pardon 49,000... http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/22/family-alan-turing-government-petition-pardons-gross-indecency-homosexuality Campaigners to bring petition to Downing Street, demanding all men con... View on www.theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/22/family-alan-turing-government-petition-pardons-gross-indecency-homosexuality Preview by Yahoo From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Decriminalization may be what I remembered reading. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> I don't think this is true. Homosexual acts were decriminalized, but no one (other than famous people like Turing) were ever granted pardons for the incarcerations and chemical castrations they had been subjected to. If you think it through, that could never happen, because it would open the UK government to millions -- possible billions -- of pounds in reparation lawsuits. Some Brit may be able to correct me on this, but none of the articles I've seen about this shameful era of British history suggest that anyone has even *apologized* to the victims of these laws, much less issued pardons to them. From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> I'm pretty sure, though not absolutely certain, that *pardon* was extended to everyone later. From: "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Just got home from watching Imitation Game - quite a good film, Cumberbatch is excellent as always. I thought the pardon was a wunnerful thang. It was done as a "royal prerogative of mercy" which just goes to show Her Starchiness does have some practical use in today's UK? From: "s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2015 8:44 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: One for Turq and fellow conspiracy fans Re "The Imitation Game to watch with my daughter and her mom": It mentions at the end of the film that Alan Turing has recently been pardoned (a Royal Pardon, no less) for his conviction for homosexual indecent acts. That's just the kind of headline-grabbing, liberal hand-wringing that drives me nuts. My grievance is that if the argument is that being gay is no longer a crime so we should posthumously and retrospectively pardon those convicted under the old law then why single out Turing? Surely *everyone* convicted under the old legal framework deserves a reprieve? There's also the issue that we are all well aware that they did things differently in Olde England. To revisit the past and apply contemporary standards to old judgements is pointless. We wouldn't have forcibly deported someone to Australia for stealing a loaf of bread, but so what? There's something tiresomely self-congratulatory about these revisions. It's advertising to the world how tolerant and well-intentioned you are.
