Pardoning Gay People- Scottish Government

[gordiescotland1]

With so many problems in Scotland that the SNP are not dealing with perhaps this is a bit of a waste of time.
I am not being homophobic here by saying this but I feel that their time and money could be better spent.
What do other abs think ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-37764566?SThisFB

[Quizmonster]

"Money could be better spent."
How is pardoning people going to cost the Scottish government any money? The same appies to the small amount of time they may have allocated to discussing the matter.

[andy-hughes]

This has been debated at great length over the last few days on another thread.

Some are in favour of pardons, some are not.

I am in the latter camp - I don't believe that you can expunge a conviction just because it was issued under a bad law.

Laws are made to reflect the attitudes of society at the time - and retrospectively deciding they are wrong should not mean that people convicted of them are suddenly 'un-convicted'.

It makes a mockery of the justice system to airbrush aspects of society we are now uncomfortable about.

[steg]

could you list the "so many problems" that are not being dealt with, so that "abs" know and can compare and come to a conclusion?

I think the SNP are doing quite fine and dandy so far and the fact that they did pretty well at the Scottish elections a couple of months back maybe proves that is the opinion of Scots as well

[Baldric]

///I am not being homophobic here///

Given the fact that you have previously told us that you are Gay, why would we think you were homophobic?

[gordiescotland1]

well a lot of people are very politically correct it is difficult to know who takes offense !!