Why not? I’m sure if you call up NAMBLA they’ll give you the names of several kids who want to have sex with older men. Well then, you religious zealot, how dare you impose your morality on them!
I could care less what NAMBLA says, the fact of the matter is that the law in every state that I am aware of requires a person to be an adult in order to consent to sex.
The premise of your argument--that children can consent to sex with adults--is totally false. Yet you unsuprisingly and blithely ignore the unalterable fact that sex with a child is not comparable to consent sex between two mentally competent adults.
In sum, your hysterical claims are totally unpersuasive.
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In sum, your hysterical claims are totally unpersuasive.
I'm certainly not in favor of any "hysteria" going on here, but...I think some are overlooking the point that "children" and "mentally competent" are legally defined terms, and if the Supreme Court can overturn laws based on an interpretation of what constitutes a "right", it's not out of the question that the legal definitions of "children" and "mentally competent" could also be revised in accordance with "changing times"...
I'm glad someone finally mentioned "mentally competent"...how many criminals plead "innocent" based on that definition? Anyone remember the movement several years ago to allow "children" to "divorce" their parents? The point isn't really the Texas law per se, it's "judicial legislating", the "reading into" the Constitution of so-called "complete privacy rights", and the Federal imposition of "mandates"...
It's a safe bet this one "innocuous" ruling that seems very sensible will really end up opening a can of worms.