Re: Christianity and civil partnership

Ken Down wrote:

In message <878x9stm1i.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Gareth McCaughan <Gareth.McCaughan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And, though an innocent reader might get a different idea
from your first sentence, he did not go to jail; he was
fined 3000 euros.

And I'll bet the threat of gaol if he refused to pay the oppressive fine.

I wouldn't know (more likely, I'd have thought, they'd send
the bailiffs in), but it sounds like you're arguing that it's
OK to describe *any* criminal penalty, however minor, as
"jail". I do hope not; that would be silly.

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Gareth McCaughan
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