[jaxie]

Originally Posted by UserSince2005

As a gay man, how can they be cleared of a crime they knew they were committing?

Because it never should have been a crime.

[UserSince2005]

Originally Posted by jaxie

Because it never should have been a crime.

I just think this makes a mockery of our justice system.
Of course times have changed and thats great but the past is the past.

[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by UserSince2005

I just think this makes a mockery of our justice system.
Of course times have changed and thats great but the past is the past.

It's no more making a mockery of it than changing a law in the first place. The pardoning is simply acting on the fact that a law has changed. The mockery is the fact that the law was changed in the 60's and it's taken this long to take any kind of action for those that should have been exonerated. And the past may be the past but for people who currently live as convicted criminals because of a law that has since been abolished, I'm sure they'd see it differently.