Here is my solution to this problem: if you are over 14 years of age, it is illegal for you too! We’ll send the teacher to jail, and we’ll send you to a different jail.
Once my law is passed, the principals at each school can call everybody into the auditorium and clearly explain this law. Kids, find a girl friend or a boy friend your own age! The teachers are off limits.
Firstly, faculty-student anti-miscegination rules far predated the rise in America of those who wanted to extend government powers into the area of sexual behavior. Originally, it was recognized that students competed for grades and academic accomplishment. I know this is hard to believe for present day Americans accustomed to the surly, indifferent, hostile, even dangerous ‘students’ of todays Pooblik Skrewls.
However, it hard historic fact that once students did compete, and it was known that if a student was in a sexual relationship with the educator, the educators’ fairness in academic grading was questionable.
A more timely, and much more pertinent issue is whether allowing Big Government(BigGov.) to supervise sexual behavior can end in any other way than tyranny. Note that now BigGov can, and does prosecute an American who in a foreign land, and in compliance with all laws in said foreign land, engages in a consensual sexual act which BigGov. has outlawed in America.
By so doing, America has userped all other systems of law on earth - a mechanism which is all too similar to Sharia Law's claim of universality. At least Sharia Law claims to be more or less “holy” whereas BigGov merely prosecutes because it claims to be doing good.
Florida is a case in point. Florida passed laws establishing a swarm of offices to “help” children who were being physically or sexually abused. After decades and umpteen megabucks expended, the data is clear, unambiguous, and most damning. Children removed from a physically or sexually abusive family and placed in Florida custody/supervision are physically and/or sexually abused more while in Florida custody.
The HillaBeast was wrong - a village can't rescue a child
from a physically or sexually abusive family.
The Founders knew some things were beyond the power of government, and they were well aware of the danger of an intrusive government.
Child abuse is a particularly egregious sin, one which Jesus discussed - complete with what He thought were the proper punishments for such abuses. Yet, even Jesus didn't attempt to oversee all families.
Jesus knew evil was part of life on earth and charged each person with responsibly acting towards children and made clear that at Final Judgment, abuse of children would not be considered justifiable.
I suggest that when BigGov. undertakes regulatory acts which Jesus didn't, that such AgencyPersons are not really more powerful, or more wise, or more just than Jesus. Sex acts of, and with children were largely decided by the parents. For example, Roman Law considered the child to be the property of the parent until age of majority.
Now, using Florida as an example, BigGov. can take possession of the child because it accepted that the Floridian is something of a subject rather than a citizen.
Given that Florida has succeeded in creating a vast bureaucracy enabling child beaters and child molesters at great cost to the taxpayers, one can't avoid asking if the attempt to reduce evil should be continued when it creates more of the evil it was intended to prevent.
Perhaps Moses and Jesus were right. Perhaps the Founders understood the limits of government far better than have the present day Florida voters.
Are present day BigGov. laws regarding sexual activities unconstitutional and are their severe unintended consequences avoidable or are they inherent in allowing BigGov. into such areas of human activities?. Particularly in the realm of regulating sex, BigGov. can be said to have done far more harm than good.
Indeed, a case can be made BigGov. employees are the primary beneficiaries of letting BigGov. regulate sex related human activities.
Is this what America wants to continue doing?