It’s worse than that.
The move to eradicate age of consent as a general principal has gained wide acceptance since the sixties.
Not just with the farthest reaches of the left.
Homosexual pedophiles want age-of-consent drastically lowered as well.
One thing about gay marriage -- if you are a gay man who lives in a state where people under 18 can marry with parental consent, and you have a gay couple with a boy who has been groomed for the gay lifestyle, you can marry an underage boy and have all the underage boy sex you want, in complete legality.