He doesn't think possession of child pornography should be illegal - he and Michael Coren had a big blow up about it on the latter's tv show.
Elsewhere Archer writes: "The gay community is, understandably, seeking to distance itself from the age-old equation of gays with paedophiles. ... And so it is on Church St [the centre of Toronto's visible gay community] that one can find some of the most vehement condemnation of men having anything sexually to do with younger men and boys. This is bad. ... A brief look at the commentary on Gerald Hannon shows that there is little thought and no reflection going into this discussion. Hannon is labelled 'repugnant' and filed away. The similarity of this approach to the way homosexuality was treated 30 years ago shouldn't need pointing out."
And from a Vancouver newspaper, headlined "Perverts find some willing accomplices", the article's author Paul Schratz writes, "The gay press, meanwhile, is a virtual marketplace for ideas like this. Rare is the issue of Vancouver's XTRA West! that doesn't have a letter or column promoting pederasty. (This is the rag that Fraser Valley libraries rejected, earning them derision.) Just sample Bert Archer's Jan. 11 essay calling for `discussion, debate and eventual understanding leading to rational action' on child-adult sex."
Thinks it should be legal for people with AIDS or who are HIV positive to knowingly withhold this information from potential sex partners.
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Thinks groping should be legal.
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"The criminalization of harmless sexual acts (and there is no credible study anywhere to link either ogling or groping to any more invasive sexual crime) in a culture as sexually diffident as ours, which considers the sight of certain body parts inherently harmful to children, is a step in the wrong direction. As are fastidious notions about groping and the laws that bolster them."
"A general distaste for someone who gets their jollies touching strangers is perfectly understandable (though I'd argue there's nothing inherently sexually unhealthy about it), as is not wanting to be one of the touched."
Thinks animal cruelty laws should be abolished.
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Oh yeah, and he supports same sex marriage.
Archer writes, "In the middle of all this, I read a column by Peter Worthington in the Sun about same-sex marriage. He jovially equated it to people marrying dogs. I instantly wanted to bash his freakin' addled head in."
Elsewhere Archer writes: "The gay community is, understandably, seeking to distance itself from the age-old equation of gays with paedophiles. ... And so it is on Church St [the centre of Toronto's visible gay community] that one can find some of the most vehement condemnation of men having anything sexually to do with younger men and boys. This is bad. ... A brief look at the commentary on Gerald Hannon shows that there is little thought and no reflection going into this discussion. Hannon is labelled 'repugnant' and filed away. The similarity of this approach to the way homosexuality was treated 30 years ago shouldn't need pointing out."
And from a Vancouver newspaper, headlined "Perverts find some willing accomplices", the article's author Paul Schratz writes, "The gay press, meanwhile, is a virtual marketplace for ideas like this. Rare is the issue of Vancouver's XTRA West! that doesn't have a letter or column promoting pederasty. (This is the rag that Fraser Valley libraries rejected, earning them derision.) Just sample Bert Archer's Jan. 11 essay calling for `discussion, debate and eventual understanding leading to rational action' on child-adult sex."
Thinks it should be legal for people with AIDS or who are HIV positive to knowingly withhold this information from potential sex partners.
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Thinks groping should be legal.
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"The criminalization of harmless sexual acts (and there is no credible study anywhere to link either ogling or groping to any more invasive sexual crime) in a culture as sexually diffident as ours, which considers the sight of certain body parts inherently harmful to children, is a step in the wrong direction. As are fastidious notions about groping and the laws that bolster them."
"A general distaste for someone who gets their jollies touching strangers is perfectly understandable (though I'd argue there's nothing inherently sexually unhealthy about it), as is not wanting to be one of the touched."
Thinks animal cruelty laws should be abolished.
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Oh yeah, and he supports same sex marriage.
Archer writes, "In the middle of all this, I read a column by Peter Worthington in the Sun about same-sex marriage. He jovially equated it to people marrying dogs. I instantly wanted to bash his freakin' addled head in."
