LEGISLATED MORALITY

Here's something I wonder about.

In the province of New Brunswick in Canada, our laws allow boys and girls to have sex between the ages of twelve and eighteen as long as their partner is no more than five years older than they are.  At the age of eighteen the individual may have sex with whomever they please as long as their partner is no younger than thirteen years of age.  (So 12 - 12 to17; 13 - 12 to 18; 14 - 12 to 19; 15 - 12 to 20; 16 - 12 to 21; 17 - 12 to 22; 18 - 13 to whatever older; etc.)

THIS AN ABSOLUTE ABOMINATION!!!

I guess the only way to keep people from breaking the law was to change the law so that it could hardly be broken.  God defend us from that kind of moral thinking.

My thought is this:  If it's legal for twelve year old children to have sex, why is filming and taking pictures of children between the ages of twelve and seventeen against the law?  By this I am not saying that I believe it should be legal.  Quite the contrary.

Personally, I think we had it right 50 and more years ago when the law in Ontario, Canada said that the age of majority was 21, male or female (I think that was actually federal law).  That is, one was not considered to be an adult  until they were 21 years of age.  Not old enough to vote, drink alcoholic beverage or engage in sexual activity.  There was the stipulation that males were allowed to have sex from the age of eighteen with parental consent while a females were not, even with parental consent (guardian where applicable)

Call me old fashioned, but the morality legislation of the 50's and 60's seems to be more in line with the needs of young people today, considering the legal age limit and current level of maturity.  I believe that if we're going to legislate morality it should be with a keen sense of what is right and what is wrong, rather than a sense of what makes folks uncomfortable and what's less likely to offend.