Why are gays getting special treatment for having been allegedly persecuted by what, at the time, were legal laws in a free and democratic country? That moral attitudes have changed should not change the fact that the law was legally the law regardless of who might today find if morally repugnant. Start this kind of retrospective justice and you'll always be on a treadmill of trying to undo what was thought proper 50 years in the past (yes kiddies, hard to imagine but 50 years from now there will be many who think that Junior was a savage and uncouth brute). The prospect of retrospective justice also leads to scofflaws thinking that there's no real need to obey any law because it's unjust and someone will change it if we wait long enough. What about all the people who were hanged for crime in Canada before that was abandoned; have we apologized to them?