<p class="text-align-justify">However, it took Scotland 13 years to incorporate the same statute into Scots Law. Robin Cook who was the MP was one of the influential people to motivate this change in Scotland. Various pressure organizations such as the Scottish Minorities Group filed a lawsuit and took it to the European Court of Human Rights, resulting in the Criminal Justice Act 1980, which brought Scottish law in line with Wales and England.<br />
Scotland has changed dramatically. Practices and perspectives from the past appear to be unrecognizable in today's world.<br />
Men were charged for "importuning," which included kissing another guy in a public location, consenting sexual behavior in private, and talking with another man in a public area.<br />
The Scottish government created a new law that enabled certain homosexual men that have previous convictions, which are no longer regarded unlawful, expunged from their criminal records. Following the passage of a new law, thousands of homosexual and bisexual men were legally pardoned.<br />
The Scottish Parliament too currently boasts the world's highest proportion of openly lesbian, gay, and bisexual members (7.8%). There are ten openly lesbian, gay, or bisexual members of the Scottish Parliament, out of a total of 129.</p>
