Gay Men Convicted Of Now-Abolished Sex Offences To Be Pardoned

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37711518

And not before time, in my humble opinion !

[naomi24]

Ummmm, //Naomi - I don't have a problem//

Why the constant criticism then?

Lunol. //I've never understood "Posthumous" pardons.//

I understand the reasoning behind it and the good intentions, but as I said earlier, rather than absolving the accused from blame, ‘pardon’ implies that a crime has been committed and the culprit ‘forgiven’. Of course in this case, under the old law, a crime has been committed, but in light of current thinking we now understand that the law was in error and, in retrospect, that particular crime wasn’t really a 'crime' at all. Therefore why 'pardon' rather than simply 'absolve'?

[naomi24]

Divebuddy, I posted something to that effect yesterday.

[-Talbot-]

andy-hughes
If I need precisely to define every single aspect of the discussion, my posts are going to get even more convoluted, and I have enough people complaining about that thank you!






Heaven forbid.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //Heaven forbid. //

Absolutely! LOL.

In fact, it reminds me of the time ...... (sound of door closing softly).

[Peter Pedant]

and heaven has forbidden !

the pardon WOULD have been statutory as a bill was going foo parliament
and it has just failed at the first hurdle

Gone down at the first reading
so gay pardings are about as popular in parliament as erm Brexit or something

i thought some gay mandarin has just jigged around with the royal prerogative or something.... ho hum c'est la vie .... as Oscar Wilde might have said

[mushroom25]

link to qualify PP's post -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37707030

looks like the government cynically killed it by "talking it out".

[naomi24]

^Nothing.