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Ask Distinction Between Sexual Crimes and Sins

LONDON (NC)-The Home Office, British government ministry controlling the police and prosecution of crime, is considering a report submitted by a group of Catholic sociologists and priests on the legal punishment of crimes against sexual morality.

An important point of the report is the claim that "British criminal law does not seem to distinguish between sin, which is a matter of private morals, and crime, which is an offense against the state, having antisocial consequences."

The committee agreed that the distinction between per sonal sin and public crime is not always easy to define, but that it is "certainly ignored" In existing British legislation.

Present British penal law im The committee urged that the poses penal sanctions for "acts government retain the utmost of gross indecency done by conpenal sanctions against sexual senting adult males in private." offenses against minors, public decency, and the exploitation of vice for the purpose of gain.

But it recommended that "consensual acts done in pri. vate by adult males" should not be punishable by law.

The Catholic group was set up by the late Cardinal Griffin a short time before he died in September.

The Home Office is currently conducting a thorough investigation concerning the rise of homosexuality and prostitution in Britain since the end of World War II,

The purpose of the Catholic group is to make clear to na tional legislators the Church's viewpoint on the subject, which has become almost a national scandal and a point of frequent discussion.

The Catholic committee as serted that imprisonment is largely ineffective for reorien

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