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It recommended that "homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private should no longer be a criminal offence." It found that "homosexuality cannot legitimately be regarded as a disease, because in many cases it is the only symptom and is compatible with full mental health in other respects, adding: "The law's function is to preserve public order and decency, to protect the citizen from what is offensive or injurious, and to provide sufficient safeguards against exploitation and corruption of others. Not, in our view, the function of the law to intervene in the private life of citizens, or to seek to enforce any particular pattern of behaviour."
The Brits are celebrating. If you can call it a celebration in London's dismal and rainy September chill. And frankly, they should have expanded and enforced this piece of legislation to their outlying colonies BEFORE they became independent. We would not have to contend with the likes of Uganda and Jamaica today.
Just maybe.
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