Posted on 09/03/2020 4:09:47 AM PDT by gattaca
The California General Assembly — comprised of a Democratic supermajority — has advanced legislation that could ease the criminal punishment for LGBT adults who have sex with underage teenagers.
The bill — SB 145 — was introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D), an openly gay man, and seeks to prevent gay adults who sodomize or perform oral sex with underage teenagers from being automatically assigned to California's sex offender registry.
The legislation calls for a judge to use discretion on assigning an individual to the sex offender registry if their victim was between the ages of 14 to 17 and the age difference between the offender and the victim is less than 10 years.
The bill passed the California state Senate by a 23-10 vote and passed the Assembly by a 41-18 vote, the San Fransisco Chronicle reported.
Wiener claims the bill "eliminates discrimination against LGBTQ youth in our criminal justice system."
More from the Chronicle:
Under current law, a judge can decide whether to place a man who has vaginal intercourse with an underage teenage girl on the sex offender registry based on the facts of the case. But if anal or oral sex, or vaginal penetration with anything other than a penis is involved, the adult must register as a sex offender — a relic of a penal code that criminalized those acts until 1975, even between consenting adults.
The California Supreme Court upheld the legal difference in 2015, arguing that because vaginal intercourse can lead to pregnancy, forcing a father to register as a sex offender would subject him to social stigmatization that could make it difficult to find a job and support his child. The bill will next head to the desk of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), where it will likely become law.
What did opposition say? State Rep. Lorena Gonzalez, a Democrat, said, "I cannot in my mind as a mother understand how sex between a 24-year-old and a 14-year-old could ever be consensual, how it could ever not be a registrable offense. We should never give up on this idea that children should be in no way subject to a predator."
Anything else?
Wiener is also responsible for legislation that lowered the criminal penalty for knowingly transmitting HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor.
I don’t care what adults do, but this involves children. It’s outrageous.
Unreal.
Homosexual marriage
Transgenderism
Polygamy
Pedophilia
Bestiality
We know what they want to normalize. The order is whatever they can manage to get.
Raping and molesting troubled kids is how homos reproduce.
Hence this.
Raping and molesting troubled kids is how homos reproduce.
Hence this.
Great point. These predatory homos are sick people and belong nowhere near the legislative process.
despicable deviance Im hoping for an earthquake at this point and throw in a tsunami to make sure
Its okay guys...politifact FACTCHECKED it as false https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/02/facebook-posts/claim-viewed-millions-social-media-says-california/
“I don’t care what adults do, but this involves children. It’s outrageous.”
Due to the Overton Window, even if this is not signed into law, or if it is overturned in court as unconstitutional, it seems it will at some point be accepted practice. At that point, sex with children, which will start with some restriction, say 13 years old, will inexorably move towards sex on the birthing table. The first time I saw sex with children touted...lauded...was in the novel “Lolita.” I was a child when I read it and I was astonished that it was considered “art.” But that is probably the Overton Window’s start of moving society towards okaying sex with children.
The Overton Window:
The moral depravity of Kalifornia will keep it quickly sliding downward to hell! Nearly there!
Yes, the “fact-check” is true....a 21 year old cannot have sex with an 11 year old.
But a 24 year old can have sex with a 14 year old.
You see how “fact-checkers” dance on the head of a pin?
I thought 18 was the age of consent in CA?
They haven’t changed that, too, have they?
The typical Romeo and Juliet exemption to adult-adolescent relation prohibitions is 3 or 4 years. This moron wants to blow it out to 10 years, apparently to fit a common stereotype about gay men.
California is50 billion in debt. They can’t manage the state. They pay people money, going deeper in debt, to come up with these legislations
Wiener needs to be roasted!
It’s bad enough that they target the freshmen in college to join their peer group as soon as the child is away from the parent’s guidance.
I’ve observed this many, many times as a professor.
Epstein’s law.
The California State Legislators are demonstrating themselves to be domestic terrorists.
I wouldn't say it was touted, any more than a murder mystery touts murder. Literature is full of evil people.
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