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	<title>Comments on: Britain &#8216;could force Gibraltar to adopt equal age of consent&#8217;</title>
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		<title>By: Brenda Lana Smith R af D</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/31/britain-could-force-gibraltar-to-adopt-equal-age-of-consent/#comment-105673</link>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Lana Smith R af D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OMG, Rob_N… what a sad obnoxious, egotistical, foul mouthed xeno- trans- phobic vacuous ageist commenter you unwittingly paint yourself out to be.  And, yes, before you ask—for the sake of proprietary—I have left out more descriptive, less flattering words of yourself…

That assumption done and dusted… let&#039;s unite and get back to combatting those who would deny us our freedom of sexual orientation and gender-identification…

Brenda…</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OMG, Rob_N… what a sad obnoxious, egotistical, foul mouthed xeno- trans- phobic vacuous ageist commenter you unwittingly paint yourself out to be.  And, yes, before you ask—for the sake of proprietary—I have left out more descriptive, less flattering words of yourself…</p>
<p>That assumption done and dusted… let&#8217;s unite and get back to combatting those who would deny us our freedom of sexual orientation and gender-identification…</p>
<p>Brenda…</p>
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		<title>By: Rob_N</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rob_N</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brenda Lana Smith, R.af D :
You are just SO full of sh!t.

&quot;As a 76-year-young twenty-six-year-postoperative Anglo-Danish Mancunian-born Bermudian transsexual woman&quot;

I reiterate: &quot;Are you sure you didn&#039;t leave anyone out?&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brenda Lana Smith, R.af D :<br />
You are just SO full of sh!t.</p>
<p>&#8220;As a 76-year-young twenty-six-year-postoperative Anglo-Danish Mancunian-born Bermudian transsexual woman&#8221;</p>
<p>I reiterate: &#8220;Are you sure you didn&#8217;t leave anyone out?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Brenda Lana Smith R af D</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/31/britain-could-force-gibraltar-to-adopt-equal-age-of-consent/#comment-105453</link>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Lana Smith R af D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rob_N@

&quot;LGBTQI? WTF did THAT come from?
&quot;Now are you sure you didn&#039;t leave anyone out?&quot;

Quite possibly; Pink News followers are an expanding heterogeneous group of people whose sexual orientation and gender identity are individually separate and distinct entities... that need to be regarded and legislated as such… not only in any amendment to British Overseas Territories&#039; but ALL present gay and gender-variant omissive Human Rights Laws… as a 76-year-young twenty-six-year-postoperative Anglo-Danish Mancunian-born Bermudian transsexual woman I happen to be but one of many diverse folk negatively effected by Britain&#039;s feeble approach to date in requiring British Overseas Territories remove homo- trans- phobic legal firewalls and inequalities from their present territorial laws…

So please stop having a laugh at my and my fellow colonial LGBTQI&#039;s expense…

Sincerely…
 
Brenda Lana Smith, R.af D.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rob_N@</p>
<p>&#8220;LGBTQI? WTF did THAT come from?<br />
&#8220;Now are you sure you didn&#8217;t leave anyone out?&#8221;</p>
<p>Quite possibly; Pink News followers are an expanding heterogeneous group of people whose sexual orientation and gender identity are individually separate and distinct entities&#8230; that need to be regarded and legislated as such… not only in any amendment to British Overseas Territories&#8217; but ALL present gay and gender-variant omissive Human Rights Laws… as a 76-year-young twenty-six-year-postoperative Anglo-Danish Mancunian-born Bermudian transsexual woman I happen to be but one of many diverse folk negatively effected by Britain&#8217;s feeble approach to date in requiring British Overseas Territories remove homo- trans- phobic legal firewalls and inequalities from their present territorial laws…</p>
<p>So please stop having a laugh at my and my fellow colonial LGBTQI&#8217;s expense…</p>
<p>Sincerely…</p>
<p>Brenda Lana Smith, R.af D.</p>
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		<title>By: Rob_N</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rob_N</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LGBTQI? WTF did THAT come from?
Now are you sure you didn&#039;t leave anyone out?

PC bullsh!t knows no bounds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LGBTQI? WTF did THAT come from?<br />
Now are you sure you didn&#8217;t leave anyone out?</p>
<p>PC bullsh!t knows no bounds.</p>
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		<title>By: Brenda Lana Smith R af D</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/31/britain-could-force-gibraltar-to-adopt-equal-age-of-consent/#comment-105425</link>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Lana Smith R af D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well said, Paul Mitchell… I invite yourself and all like minded LGBTQI folk to show similar support on Facebook urging prompt amendments to Bermuda&#039;s present gay and gender-variant discriminatory Human Rights laws—please become a member of:

&quot;Stand Up for Gay Rights in Bermuda&quot; 
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=71117790931&amp;ref=mf 

&quot;Stand up for Gender-Variant People&#039;s Rights on Bermuda&quot; 
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=83427199552 

Thank you…

Brenda Lana Smith, R.af D.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well said, Paul Mitchell… I invite yourself and all like minded LGBTQI folk to show similar support on Facebook urging prompt amendments to Bermuda&#8217;s present gay and gender-variant discriminatory Human Rights laws—please become a member of:</p>
<p>&#8220;Stand Up for Gay Rights in Bermuda&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=71117790931&#038;ref=mf" rel="nofollow">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=71117790931&#038;ref=mf</a> </p>
<p>&#8220;Stand up for Gender-Variant People&#8217;s Rights on Bermuda&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=83427199552" rel="nofollow">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=83427199552</a> </p>
<p>Thank you…</p>
<p>Brenda Lana Smith, R.af D.</p>
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		<title>By: Brenda Lana Smith R af D</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/31/britain-could-force-gibraltar-to-adopt-equal-age-of-consent/#comment-105424</link>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Lana Smith R af D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well said, Paul Mitchell… I invite yourself and all like minded LGBTQI folk to show similar support on Facebook urging LGBTQI favorable amendments to Bermuda&#039;s present gay and gender-variant discriminatory Human Rights laws—please become a member of:

&quot;Stand Up for Gay Rights in Bermuda&quot; 


&quot;Stand up for Gender-Variant People&#039;s Rights on Bermuda&quot; 


Thank you…</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well said, Paul Mitchell… I invite yourself and all like minded LGBTQI folk to show similar support on Facebook urging LGBTQI favorable amendments to Bermuda&#8217;s present gay and gender-variant discriminatory Human Rights laws—please become a member of:</p>
<p>&#8220;Stand Up for Gay Rights in Bermuda&#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;Stand up for Gender-Variant People&#8217;s Rights on Bermuda&#8221; </p>
<p>Thank you…</p>
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		<title>By: Gay Activist Paul Mitchell</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/31/britain-could-force-gibraltar-to-adopt-equal-age-of-consent/#comment-105417</link>
		<dc:creator>Gay Activist Paul Mitchell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The proposed ORDER should include Bermuda as well - since they also have an unequal/unfair age of consent set at 18 for gay men (16 for lesbians and heterosexuals).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The proposed ORDER should include Bermuda as well &#8211; since they also have an unequal/unfair age of consent set at 18 for gay men (16 for lesbians and heterosexuals).</p>
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		<title>By: Gay Activist Paul Mitchell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gay Activist Paul Mitchell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All this talk on AIDS - where did it all start and how, where did it originate from and then you will find the answer????!!!!

Monkeys?????

Back in 1930 or 1960 etc???

How did it get into the gay community????

Cases of AIDS poped up in the 1980&#039;s?????

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_AIDS</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All this talk on AIDS &#8211; where did it all start and how, where did it originate from and then you will find the answer????!!!!</p>
<p>Monkeys?????</p>
<p>Back in 1930 or 1960 etc???</p>
<p>How did it get into the gay community????</p>
<p>Cases of AIDS poped up in the 1980&#8242;s?????</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_AIDS" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_AIDS</a></p>
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		<title>By: Steve</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Both Northern Ireland and Ireland also have a fair and equal age of consent as well (I forgot these)!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Both Northern Ireland and Ireland also have a fair and equal age of consent as well (I forgot these)!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Steve</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry Greece does have an equal age of consent at 15 for all individuals sorry for my mistake - I guess that just leaves outdated and as Paul Mitchell quoted &quot;pathetic, just pathetic Gibraltar&quot; in regards to not catching-up with the rest of Europe. Why does Government of Gibraltar have this silly and deeply embarrassing discrimination on the higher age of consent legislation imposed onto gay men – when Scotland, England, Wales, Jersey, Isle of Man and Guernsey, all have an equal and fair age of consent on all individuals?

It is a good thing that there is proposal for the Gordon Brown Labour Government in the UK parliament at Winesminter to &quot;force&quot; an ORDER should they continue to have outdated, unequal and unfair age of consent laws imposed just on gay men. I would not be at the least bit surprised that the Chief Minister of Gibraltar is a &quot;cheap bigoted homophobic scumbag&quot;, stuck in the gay men’s closet back in 1956!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry Greece does have an equal age of consent at 15 for all individuals sorry for my mistake &#8211; I guess that just leaves outdated and as Paul Mitchell quoted &#8220;pathetic, just pathetic Gibraltar&#8221; in regards to not catching-up with the rest of Europe. Why does Government of Gibraltar have this silly and deeply embarrassing discrimination on the higher age of consent legislation imposed onto gay men – when Scotland, England, Wales, Jersey, Isle of Man and Guernsey, all have an equal and fair age of consent on all individuals?</p>
<p>It is a good thing that there is proposal for the Gordon Brown Labour Government in the UK parliament at Winesminter to &#8220;force&#8221; an ORDER should they continue to have outdated, unequal and unfair age of consent laws imposed just on gay men. I would not be at the least bit surprised that the Chief Minister of Gibraltar is a &#8220;cheap bigoted homophobic scumbag&#8221;, stuck in the gay men’s closet back in 1956!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Steve</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/31/britain-could-force-gibraltar-to-adopt-equal-age-of-consent/#comment-105406</link>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Greece and Gibralter are the only 2 places left in Europe not to have a fair and equal age of consent - may I ask why???????</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greece and Gibralter are the only 2 places left in Europe not to have a fair and equal age of consent &#8211; may I ask why???????</p>
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		<title>By: Rob_N</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rob_N</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Robert: &quot;Rob_N, you are wrong when you imply that vaginal sex carries less of a risk in contracting HIV. All it takes is a straight male with HIV to infect a woman that way. Many female prostitutes succumbed to HIV earlier on before the disease became the pandemic that it is. There is a myth that it is harder to transmit it vaginally, it is incorrect and dangerous. You only have to look at the emerging countries on the African continent as a primary example where its overwhelmingly heterosexually transmitted via vaginal intercourse. HIV does not discriminate.&quot;

&lt;b&gt;CITATION NEEDED&lt;/b&gt;
You are talking completely out of your ARSE! Anal sex is considered considerably more risky of a number of reasons:

1) The lining of the rectum is soft and very prone to cuts and fissures.

2) The lining of the rectum is a semipermeable membrane designed specifically to draw fluids from waste products to be then processed and filtered by the kidneys.

3) The vaginal environment is actually hostile to human sperm, let alone the highly fragile HIV virus. It is highly acidic and most foreign cells have a very short time in which to reach their destination before being literally eaten away. Only bacteria and yeasts can withstand this to any degree.

4) Why do you think AIDS was originally coined GRID? (Gay Related Immune Deficiency)  - Simply because gay men were dying of it faster than any other sub-population. And why? Because they practised anal sex frequently.

5) African heterosexuals are contracting it faster than others for two reasons: 1) They refuse to wear condoms, as it is deemed &#039;unmanly&#039; and 2) No man will marry a &#039;non virgin&#039; so in order for the girls to remain untainted, they have sex anally, which is considered to not affect their virginal status. 

These are FACTS, and I have corroborative references if you so wish to research further. Please don&#039;t spout utter bollocks purporting to be verbatim when you quite obviously know f_ck all about the subject.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Robert: &#8220;Rob_N, you are wrong when you imply that vaginal sex carries less of a risk in contracting HIV. All it takes is a straight male with HIV to infect a woman that way. Many female prostitutes succumbed to HIV earlier on before the disease became the pandemic that it is. There is a myth that it is harder to transmit it vaginally, it is incorrect and dangerous. You only have to look at the emerging countries on the African continent as a primary example where its overwhelmingly heterosexually transmitted via vaginal intercourse. HIV does not discriminate.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>CITATION NEEDED</b><br />
You are talking completely out of your ARSE! Anal sex is considered considerably more risky of a number of reasons:</p>
<p>1) The lining of the rectum is soft and very prone to cuts and fissures.</p>
<p>2) The lining of the rectum is a semipermeable membrane designed specifically to draw fluids from waste products to be then processed and filtered by the kidneys.</p>
<p>3) The vaginal environment is actually hostile to human sperm, let alone the highly fragile HIV virus. It is highly acidic and most foreign cells have a very short time in which to reach their destination before being literally eaten away. Only bacteria and yeasts can withstand this to any degree.</p>
<p>4) Why do you think AIDS was originally coined GRID? (Gay Related Immune Deficiency)  &#8211; Simply because gay men were dying of it faster than any other sub-population. And why? Because they practised anal sex frequently.</p>
<p>5) African heterosexuals are contracting it faster than others for two reasons: 1) They refuse to wear condoms, as it is deemed &#8216;unmanly&#8217; and 2) No man will marry a &#8216;non virgin&#8217; so in order for the girls to remain untainted, they have sex anally, which is considered to not affect their virginal status. </p>
<p>These are FACTS, and I have corroborative references if you so wish to research further. Please don&#8217;t spout utter bollocks purporting to be verbatim when you quite obviously know f_ck all about the subject.</p>
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		<title>By: El Tarik</title>
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		<dc:creator>El Tarik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lets be clear, the Government of Gibraltar is elected by the people of Gibraltar to govern the territory.  Its OUR Business not yours.

Any 16 year old boy desperate to have anal sex can go to Spain a short walk away, where the age of consent is 13 - much to the joy of paedophiles. Personally I think they should be doing their homework and playing football.

I&#039;d sack the UK Labour Government for being incompetent and destroying the economy and country, but its none of MY business any more than Gibraltar is yours, so to those who want to hand my country over to a foreign state, think again - that is not what this discussion is about, and it would involve a rather lot of people being killed.

The age of consent varies across Europe, there is NO EU directive and individual Governments decide, as will our democratically elected one - without help or interference.  That is what democracy requires.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lets be clear, the Government of Gibraltar is elected by the people of Gibraltar to govern the territory.  Its OUR Business not yours.</p>
<p>Any 16 year old boy desperate to have anal sex can go to Spain a short walk away, where the age of consent is 13 &#8211; much to the joy of paedophiles. Personally I think they should be doing their homework and playing football.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d sack the UK Labour Government for being incompetent and destroying the economy and country, but its none of MY business any more than Gibraltar is yours, so to those who want to hand my country over to a foreign state, think again &#8211; that is not what this discussion is about, and it would involve a rather lot of people being killed.</p>
<p>The age of consent varies across Europe, there is NO EU directive and individual Governments decide, as will our democratically elected one &#8211; without help or interference.  That is what democracy requires.</p>
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		<title>By: Gay activist Paul Mitchell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gay activist Paul Mitchell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I call on the Queen and the UK Labor Government to completly SACK the whole Government of Gibralter right now!!!!!!</description>
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		<title>By: andy</title>
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		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Of course the Govt of Gib is being ridiculous, and they will be forced to move with the times. That is the story.

The people who try make this political are diverting attention from the real issue. But if they have to do that, they should at least get their facts right. The statement &quot;Tomorrow Spain should declare war on Gibraltar, because that 6 km square land is rightfully owned by the Spanish – the British stole it from them 700 years ago!!!!!&quot; should check his facts. It was not stolen, it was ceded by Treaty (of Utrecht), after a war, which the UK won and it was not 700 years ago, it was 1713. Somehow, I doubt Spain will actually take up the advice of this dumbo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of course the Govt of Gib is being ridiculous, and they will be forced to move with the times. That is the story.</p>
<p>The people who try make this political are diverting attention from the real issue. But if they have to do that, they should at least get their facts right. The statement &#8220;Tomorrow Spain should declare war on Gibraltar, because that 6 km square land is rightfully owned by the Spanish – the British stole it from them 700 years ago!!!!!&#8221; should check his facts. It was not stolen, it was ceded by Treaty (of Utrecht), after a war, which the UK won and it was not 700 years ago, it was 1713. Somehow, I doubt Spain will actually take up the advice of this dumbo.</p>
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		<title>By: Jean-Paul Bentham</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jean-Paul Bentham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&#039;Documents said: “Religious faith plays an important role in our community and is also an important part of its social cohesion which would be undermined.”&#039;


That would be...christianity...??? A theocracy then.

I C.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;Documents said: “Religious faith plays an important role in our community and is also an important part of its social cohesion which would be undermined.”&#8217;</p>
<p>That would be&#8230;christianity&#8230;??? A theocracy then.</p>
<p>I C.</p>
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		<title>By: Lucio Buffone</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/31/britain-could-force-gibraltar-to-adopt-equal-age-of-consent/#comment-105221</link>
		<dc:creator>Lucio Buffone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Can&#039;t we just hand it back to Spain</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can&#8217;t we just hand it back to Spain</p>
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		<title>By: arfur</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/31/britain-could-force-gibraltar-to-adopt-equal-age-of-consent/#comment-105219</link>
		<dc:creator>arfur</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Looks like Gibraltar gays would be better off if Gibraltar were given back to Spain, getting an equal age of consent and full marriage rights/rites.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looks like Gibraltar gays would be better off if Gibraltar were given back to Spain, getting an equal age of consent and full marriage rights/rites.</p>
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		<title>By: SimonM</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/31/britain-could-force-gibraltar-to-adopt-equal-age-of-consent/#comment-105212</link>
		<dc:creator>SimonM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am well aware that anal sex is riskier for HIV transmission than vaginal sex. 

I am also aware that anal sex is illegal between opposite sex couples in Gibraltar.

However I am also well aware that even on Gibraltar, some straight couples have anal sex and that some gay couples do not. 

My point was that anal sex is not an exclusively homosexual pastime. AnD that whoever made the comment being discussed is a moron.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am well aware that anal sex is riskier for HIV transmission than vaginal sex. </p>
<p>I am also aware that anal sex is illegal between opposite sex couples in Gibraltar.</p>
<p>However I am also well aware that even on Gibraltar, some straight couples have anal sex and that some gay couples do not. </p>
<p>My point was that anal sex is not an exclusively homosexual pastime. AnD that whoever made the comment being discussed is a moron.</p>
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		<title>By: Llanito Man</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/31/britain-could-force-gibraltar-to-adopt-equal-age-of-consent/#comment-105199</link>
		<dc:creator>Llanito Man</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Please do not tarnish all in Gibraltar by the brush of our Government.  If you visit my blog llanitoworld.blogspot.com, you will find a lively discussion on this subject with enlightened views on the subject that favour a cahnge in law.

By the way buggery between men and women is presently criminalised in Gibraltar also and heterosexuals have been accused and charged with this offence in very recent times.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please do not tarnish all in Gibraltar by the brush of our Government.  If you visit my blog llanitoworld.blogspot.com, you will find a lively discussion on this subject with enlightened views on the subject that favour a cahnge in law.</p>
<p>By the way buggery between men and women is presently criminalised in Gibraltar also and heterosexuals have been accused and charged with this offence in very recent times.</p>
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