‘No age of consent law’: Gay Irish Presidential candidate
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Homosexualist Irish presidential hopeful David Norris is fighting to maintain his candidacy amidst even more revelations that he supports “classical pedophilia ” and opposes any law specifying an age of consent for sex . On its front page yesterday, the Irish Daily Mail ran the headline, “I don’t believe in an age of consent,” and said that Norris had given an interview last year in which he said (in the words of the paper) that “prostitution and all drugs should be legalised,” and “he was pro-abortion and advocated pederasty.” “And in the shockingly frank interview that raises serious questions about his suitability for the presidency,” the paper continues, “he said: I don’t believe in an age of consent.” Norris has responded in a letter, asking his supporters not to judge him according to “a couple of sensationalist headlines,” and saying that he abhors child abuse and that all perpetrators should face “the full rigours of the law.” In the l