Re: Matt Deatherage, Andy McFadden & Sodomy

[gfavelle@muug.mb.ca (Gord Favelle)]

In <2ocidv$q2t@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Shakespeare) writes:

>My point was that I think people would feel more sympathy for Matt if it had
>been a girl.  Remember, we are talking about a teenager, not a little kid.
>What he allegedly did was illegal and foolish.  But remember, in some states
>it is legal to marry a 14-year-old (with parental consent), or was until
>quite recently.  14 is not 8 or 9.

I'm sorry but I would not feel even a little bit more sympathy for Matt 
if it was a 14 year old girl he had sodomized!  His "choice" of victim is 
irrelevant to his actions.

IF it was a relationship of two people in love, in a legal (i.e. parental 
consent) marriage between a consenting husband and "wife" I suppose it 
would be acceptible (by some people standards, I don't think a 14 year 
old girl, or boy for that matter, can really understand what a 
committment to marriage really means).  However, this was *not* the case 
we are talking about here.

>bill

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