That may be the straw that breaks the camel's back in their fight. I just can't see Joe Six Pack and his missus saying to each other, "Yeah, we think old Bruce and his friends ought to be able to bugger 12 year old boys! It's not fair that they can't; it's their civil right, after all. And we shouldn't keep those little boys from having such a life altering experience, now should we? /sarcasm
Incrementalism is the way they sell this to the courts (they don't bother to appeal to the legislature).
Fornication laws (unmarried/extramarital sex) are "outdated", "outmoded", "uninforced", and dropped from many states' sex laws. Statutory rape is considered an outmoded concept (sex with a minor below age of consent whether or not the other participant is a minor). Romeo and Juliet (now Romeo and Romeo) exceptions to the law permit minors to "consent" to acts they cannot legally provide consent to.
This pushes down the "age of consent". Even now we hear of how "unfair" it is that an adult man (18+) could have sex with a minor girl (17-) as long as they were within 4 years of each other but an adult man (18+) couldn't legally have sex with a minor boy (17-) even in states that permitted same sex sodomy. Defining deviancy downwards.
The age of consent for Americans abroad is 18+ (regardless of what the local laws at that citizen's home state or visiting nation are). This is federal law (although I don't see how it can be enforced) designed to reduce sex tourism that exploits minors. I don't see how it can be enforced because it does not occur in US territory and is not a crime by the laws of that nation.
"Age of consent" itself is out as a legal concept.
The "sex positive agenda" also pushes for MORE sexual activity in schools, not less. Abstinance is a ridiculed concept (they consider it unhealthy to avoid having sex).
Sorry Joe Sixpack and Mrs. Sixpack will continue to live their lives in ignorant bliss, enraptured by reality TV and 24 hour sports channels. I live in fairly modrate/conservative neigborhood surrounded by well to do, well educated, mostly Republican neighbors, but I can guarantee that most of them, in the name of diversity and not being judgemental of course, will not whisper a peep of concern about this.
The Romans figured this out centuries ago. Keep the populace fat, happy, distracted and in the dark, and the empire can do anything it wants. Of course eventually you become soft and so decadent that you collapse from within or are destroyed from without by a enemy with a stronger moral character. The Romans had their Visigoth, we will see who we have.
Well of course they want to lower the age of consent. Their "partners" look more like girls when they're younger.