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Originally posted by Finalized
Because Wikipedia is a credible source to reference?
Originally posted by DaddyBare
reply to post by JJay55
Maybe they did a study and found that was the age at which those alter boys stopped objecting to have sex with priests???
Originally posted by AshleyD
It's an old status. As in, back then you were considered an adult at the age of 12 according to the Vatican- for legal purposes, too. Like in Jewish tradition the age is 13. That doesn't mean you're forced into marriage or sexual relations at the age of 12 or 13. It just means that was the age adulthood was recognized at the time. Please note the stress on consensual. As in you chose to be married- you were not forced or sold into it.
Originally posted by Finalized
Because Wikipedia is a credible source to reference?
Incidentally, in the Vatican City State itself homosexual acts are not technically illegal, for historical reasons I don't have time to go into, but which involve the laws of Italy when the city state was created in 1929. For similarly arcane reasons, the age of consent in the Vatican City State is 12 years.
Originally posted by AshleyD
It's an old status. As in, back then you were considered an adult at the age of 12 according to the Vatican- for legal purposes, too. Like in Jewish tradition the age is 13. That doesn't mean you're forced into marriage or sexual relations at the age of 12 or 13. It just means that was the age adulthood was recognized at the time. Please note the stress on consensual. As in you chose to be married- you were not forced or sold into it.
Originally posted by JJay55
Originally posted by Finalized
Because Wikipedia is a credible source to reference?
Show me otherwise.
Originally posted by JJay55
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Yeah we understand that, but the past is past. No reason to have an old law on the books in this day and age when the Vatican should represent something higher than pedophilia. The Vatican should be pressed to change this policy immediately and they should offer an apology for not changing it sooner.
Originally posted by WalterRatlos
Originally posted by JJay55
Originally posted by Finalized
Because Wikipedia is a credible source to reference?
Show me otherwise.
Well, wikipedia is a nice start. Is it relyable? Depends, on the internet anytime you give users the ability to edit such encyclopedia entries, the point about relieability becomes moot. In praxis, usually it levels out in that the voices of reason and science prevails. Anyways, the legal status is that it does not matter what the legal age of consent is inside the Vatican, because 80 years long now Italian national law applies inside the Vatican above Vatican own law.
Originally posted by JJay55
Originally posted by WalterRatlos
Originally posted by JJay55
Originally posted by Finalized
Because Wikipedia is a credible source to reference?
Show me otherwise.
Well, wikipedia is a nice start. Is it relyable? Depends, on the internet anytime you give users the ability to edit such encyclopedia entries, the point about relieability becomes moot. In praxis, usually it levels out in that the voices of reason and science prevails. Anyways, the legal status is that it does not matter what the legal age of consent is inside the Vatican, because 80 years long now Italian national law applies inside the Vatican above Vatican own law.
Vatican City is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, the capital city of Italy.
Maybe you can show me another source that shows otherwise... still waiting.