[solomangrundy]

So again I must ask you, do you advocate that heterosexual child molesters be treated more leniently than homosexual child molesters? Do you have some reasoning for advocating that heterosexual molesters be treated more leniently?

[aristeides]

All I'm arguing is that states should be constitutionally allowed to set these sentences more or less however they please, without any constitutional protections for particular sexual orientations, in either direction. I can easily imagine reasonable justifications for Kansas setting the penalty higher for homosexual molestation. I'm sure you can too. (I'm not saying I would agree with such justifications. I'm not saying that, if it were up to me, I would treat homosexual molestation more harshly. My brief is for the constitutional right of states to set such sentences as they please.) Under traditional rational review, the federal courts would have upheld such sentencing disparities. But now the Supreme Court has granted homosexuals, including homosexual child molesters, special constitutional protection.