You compare a sex offender and a homosexual. Societies views on homosexuals have, thank goodness, changed. Societies views on sex offenders has not changed.
If it turns out that Brittain is a sex offender, I hope the courts will deal with him appropriately. I'm not up to date with this news story.
I'm afraid that's an open goal! I have tried to point out the ever-changing zeitgeist of society, but you're quite happy that this week's, this society's view is the only one and the correct one!
Society's views on what constitues "sex offending" have certainly changed enormously, even if you haven't noticed it! May I point out that there was only thirty years difference between Jerry Lee Lewis and Bill Wyman marrying their child brides but society, as lead by the media, viewed the two very differently!
And society's views on sex offence could change again! If you read some of the newpapers, they tell you that this week in sub-Saharan Africa, homosexuality is illegal in July 2014 and punishable by death. And that twelve year old girls are old enough to be married off to old men - after they've been circumcised, of course.
And the same newspapers will tell you that all those people are coming here soon! So if they do, and they bring their values with them and they democratically change the law of this land, will you change with that change of law?
By the way, Lord Benjamin Britten died in 1976 and I don't believe he was ever even questioned over his well documented sexual interest in young boys, at least one of whom described him as being a very kind man! So according to you, was he any sort of sex offender? Were Wystan Auden or Allen Ginsburg?
In which case, what about Sir Jimmy Saville who died in 2011 with his reputation intact and who was never convicted of any sexual inpropreiety?
