This changed his mind. The Home Office review of sexual offences which was published last week inadvertently exposes the deep fallacy of the equality argument. Its proposal to do away with the offence of gross indecency means that homosexuals would be able to have sex in public lavatories. The review finds the term 'gross indecency' unpleasant and offensive. Heterosexuals just do not behave like this.
All public sex is an affront to human dignity.
If such encounters are an integral part of the homosexual lifestyle, they remain such an affront. The radical overhaul of sexual offences law proposed last week is long overdue. But that doesn't make it any the less necessary and urgent. Our recommendations are radical and widespread. We can only hope that they receive the attention they deserve and that most of them will find their way on to the statute book early in the next Parliament.