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"a boy just shy of 15 "

1. That's another way to say an adult had sex with a 14 year old. That deserves a long sentence.

2. The law should be blind to gender - child molestation is child molestation.

3. #2 does not apply to marriage which is a special case - the government has no business encouraging gay marriage... or encouraging gay anything.

You might think it deserves a long sentence, I might think that too, but the fact of the matter is Kansas law does not see it that way in these circumstances. How you feel doesn't matter. Don't like the Romeo-Juliet provision? Change the law.

The law should be gender blind. Shouldn't matter if a teacher is female and her victim is a male student, or they're both the same gender. The court recognizes this, imho, and that's why the provision was struck.

The third point has no relevance.

The core issue is should the same "consensual" activity, excluding GENDERS, be worth both 15 months and 204 months in prison? No, of course not. Those sentences aren't even close to being comparable.

Heterosexuals get a 93% discount on the homosexual's sentence for the same activity, same ages, same question of consent.

The Kansas Supreme Court is entirely correct in recognizing unequal treatment under law.