U.K. MORALS BILL
Rejection By Commons <N Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, May 27. A move to legalise homosexual practices in private between consenting adults in Britain received a set-back in the House of Commons yesterday.
A Labour Member, Mr Leo Abse, failed by 178 votes to 159 to get approval to introduce a private Bill to reform the 600-year-old law on homosexuality. Last Monday the House of Lords agreed in principle to a similar Bill. Today's vote also means that any chance the bill had of becoming law this year has become remote. Mr Abse said the House of Lords vote was the point of no return. A criminal code opposed by so much informed opinion could not be indefinitely sustained. A Conservative M.P., Sir Cyril Osborne, said it would be against the public interest to regularise homosexuality. In most recent security cases the traitors and spies had been homosexuals.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30762, 28 May 1965, Page 11
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