California Democrats are being called pedophiles as they do the right thing | Opinion

Sacramento Bee ^ | May 5, 2025 | By Robin Epley and Marcos Bretón

[artichokegrower]

Sacramento-area Assemblymember Maggy Krell forced Assembly lawmakers to consider her sex-trafficking bill on the floor last week. It blew up into the biggest controversy Sacramento has seen in a while. Assembly Democrats confronted a floor maneuver to force a vote on Krell’s bill to treat all solicitations of Californians under age 18 the same, as a way to battle sex trafficking. Democrats amended the bill over Krell’s objections.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: california; groomers; grooming; hollyweird; krell; lgbtq; marcosbreton; okgroomer; okgroomers; robinepley; sacramento

[artichokegrower]

I just don’t think that’s fair, and I believe it would be used as a cudgel to persecute out-groups — including families that disapprove of queer or interracial relationships.

Democrats are listening to the experts. I recently spoke with a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, Minouche Kandel, and she told me that laws like this have historically been used by law enforcement and prosecutors against communities of color and queer communities, particularly queer men of color

Gotta protect those groomers

[artichokegrower]

Here’s who they are trying to protect. He fits one of the protected class definitions

Officers find missing girl, arrest human trafficking suspect in Los Angeles

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/officers-find-missing-girl-arrest-human-trafficking-suspect-in-los-angeles/

[artichokegrower]

Here’s who they are trying to protect. He fits one of the protected class definitions

Officers find missing girl, arrest human trafficking suspect in Los Angeles

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/officers-find-missing-girl-arrest-human-trafficking-suspect-in-los-angeles/

[Carry_Okie]

...laws like this have historically been used by law enforcement and prosecutors against communities of color and queer communities, particularly queer men of color.

Margaret Sanger would be pleased.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Here’s who they are trying to protect.

Just a young California man (probably a surfer) trying to help young people find work.

[vikingd00d]

>>claiming that Democrats are all perverts and pedophiles who want to abuse 16- and 17-year-old girls. It’s not true

He has a point, Democrats are all perverts and pedophiles who want to abuse 16 and 17 year-old boys (and younger).

[Organic Panic]

And... Democrats are trying to eliminate lgbtwtf perverts and groomers having to register as sex offenders. AND... they are trying to normalize pedos by calling them “minor attracted people” and put their own stripe on their evil flag.

[Robert DeLong]

It’s articles like this that make it hard to distinguish The Sacramento Bee from The Babylon Bee.

[Kudsman]

A whole party obssessed with genetalia. It is a sickness. Someone please invent a cure. I for one am way past tired of hearing about it all.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Wait, you mean some California DemocRats might not be pedophiles? Next someone will try to say they are not Satan’s minions.

[MikelTackNailer]

they are trying to normalize pedos by calling them “minor attracted people” and put their own stripe on their evil flag.

I've seen their sort of stripes but fortunately I use a good detergent/bleach combo on the underwear.

[vpintheak]

What a pant load. Dims love pedophiles, and they want their child sacrifice to continue unabated.

[fella]

Jesus recommends tying a millstone around their neck and dropping it in to deep water.

[Rowdyone]

So Republicans want a hard and fast law while Democrats want a more “nuanced” one that allows judges, dominated by Democrats, “lattitude” in sentencing. Seems consistent with other aspect of our legal system (notice I didn’t say justice system) dominated by Democrats.

[packrat35]

So are they saying those communities are full of pedos? Sure sounds like it...

[daniel1212]

They need to uphold the law of God which renders all fornication to be sin, as is abortion.

Rejecting this has cost the US alone greatly in souls, lives and money.

Regarding just the latter: