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CAAN welcomes another seasoned campaigner
CAAN (Consenting Adult Action Network) today extends a warm welcome to Human Rights Campaigner and co-ordinator of OutRage!, Peter Tatchell, who is the latest high profile supporter to align with their cause.
This follows their successful demonstration in Parliament Square on Tuesday, when they joined forces with Ben Westwood, in their continuing campaign against government attacks on individual sexuality.
Explaining his decision, Peter Tatchell said: "The government has gone way beyond a legitimate desire to stop sexual exploitation. It is now legislating in ways that violate the sexual human rights of its citizens”.
"The current bill outlawing so-called extreme pornography will criminalise images of sexual acts that are perfectly lawful.
"There is no evidence that Harriet Harman's proposed outlawing of soliciting for sex will help rescue the victims of sex trafficking and enslavement. It will merely drive sexual abuse and exploitation further underground, making it even harder to regulate and police”.
He further added: "The Sexual Offences Act 2003 was a monstrous attack on the human rights of young people. For the first time in British law, sexual behaviour involving two people under the age of consent and of similar ages was explicitly criminalised.
“This legislation does not protect young people; it persecutes them. It is a form of state-sanctioned child abuse”.
Clair Lewis, for CAAN, said: “Our focus is on sexual interaction between consenting adults. We have a simple statement of principle, which politely asks government to stay out of our bedrooms.
“Unless sexual activity is non-consensual, it is no business whatsoever of government what adults get up to in private.
“Despite this, recent legislation – not only on extreme porn, but also on safeguarding vulnerable people – is designed to criminalise and exclude from jobs anyone whose sexuality does not meet the Government's approval.
“Twenty years ago, a common accusation levelled at the Gay community, was that children were not safe left in the company of homosexuals. We now recognise this for the bigoted nonsense it always was. Yet government today are attempting the same trick when dealing with consenting adults whose sexuality does not conform to their preferences, despite the fact that what an adult does in private bears no relation to children's safety, whatever the adult's sexuality.
“The government should be ashamed of themselves”.
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For details of our statement of principles or our campaigns, please go to: www.caan.org.uk
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