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I'm used to non-ie protals but see: http://www.repentamerica.com/.

"Christians, enter here.

Others, enter here."

I think they need a footnote to disambiguate people like catholics[1] and jesus...

[1] No, I have no idea why American "ultra"-Xian organisations think catholics aren't Xian, but there you go.

Date: 2005-01-07 04:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] chess
Under British law, one cannot be considered to have given consent to Actual Bodily Harm (which is loosely defined, but generally consists of 'heavy bruising', 'marks which persist for a week or more' or similar levels of injury) or Grevious Bodily Harm (or 'wounding', but that's oddly defined and generally strange legally) on the grounds of sadomasochism; you can give consent to 'battery', which is any form of physical contact which does not constitute ABH. There is a famous case where a bunch of gay men were convicted of ABH and GBH for consensual acts performed on each other. ('Assault' doesn't actually contain any element of physical contact at all - it's the crime of putting someone in *fear* of violence, and you can also consent to that trivially.)

I think the American legal system has different definitions of all of these terms, and don't know its stance on how much harm can be explained as sadomasochism.