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Pierre Trudeau quote on gay rights revisited

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  1. Canadian justice minister Pierre Trudeau introduced Bill C-150 in 1967, decriminalizing homosexuality in 1969.

  2. Trudeau stated: 'The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.'

  3. Everett George Klippert was the last person in Canada imprisoned for being gay, receiving a life sentence upheld by the Supreme Court in 1967.

  4. Bill C-150 (Omnibus Bill) decriminalized consensual homosexual acts between adults.

  5. Trudeau argued that a democratic state should maintain public order but not enforce private morality.

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