The Classical concept of friendship that we still call “Platonic” to this day (but which is just as much Biblical - Ruth and Naomi, David and Jonathan, Jesus and John, Paul and Timothy), recapitulated in Christ so as to include women and preclude pederasty, is something of which our debauched, de-Christianised, rootless excuse for a culture has completely lost sight.
Hence the decision to move Cardinal Newman from the grave of Father Ambrose St John in time for the former’s beatification. And hence the perfectly ridiculous, but lavishly reported, suggestion that William III engaged in sexual acts with his court favourites, the only “evidence” for which is the existence of those favourites in the first place, regarded as a knock-down argument by the utterly, utterly filthy-minded.
Step forward, Peter Tatchell.
Who, I am told, does not wish to lower the age of consent to 14 at all (funny how I have heard him in the flesh propose a motion to that very effect), but merely wishes to legalise sex between under-14s who differ in age by not more than three years. So that’s all right, then. Isn’t it?
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