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Who's "acting all Puritan"?
An adult offender violated a child. It's illegal. Why shouldn't she pay the legally-prescribed penalty?
Answer the questions.
Who's "acting all Puritan"?
An adult offender violated a child. It's illegal. Why shouldn't she pay the legally-prescribed penalty?
Answer the questions.
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I respectfully decline. I have no reason to discuss my private life in this context.
An adult raped a child. She should pay. Some people think she should not. That's the issue.
But she is not a sexual predator, she's not a "child molester", nor is she a rapist in the classical sense of the word. Stop treating this young person as a monster who will be a lifelong threat to other girls.
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Kaitlyn’s parents have blamed the arrest of their daughter on the alleged victim’s “bigoted” parents.
somehow they don't seem to fit the profile of the typical "bigoted" parents......
Are you completely insane?IT should not be illegal, not for gay people and not for straight people. If kids are in school together they are very likely to hook up.
The fact that its two women should not enter the equation. I was sleeping with a 14 year old girl when I was 18.
Are you completely insane?
Defendant doesn't deny the charges.
Under Florida law (cited above) she committed a felony.
Yet liberals want to give her a pass.
Why?
This liberal does not want to give her a pass. While I do feel these laws are in need of reform (specifically, for cases involving young people), the law is the law. If it were an 18-year-old man instead of a young woman, there wouldn't be any controversy.
IT should not be illegal, not for gay people and not for straight people. If kids are in school together they are very likely to hook up. The fact that its two women should not enter the equation. I was sleeping with a 14 year old girl when I was 18.
My morality is not defined by Florida Statutes.
Two people of similar intellect and level of development who have sex does not make one of them a child molester. I'm willing to bet that a huge percentage of people who were having sex when they became biologically ready were breaking this law at one time or another. I would not call this 18 year old girl a child molester, just like I was not a child molester.
1) Again, the law is not my moral authority. My morality comes from a higher source.
I have an elected position, I'm glad that issue never came up in the campaign.
I would not want that issue to come up because many disagree with me and might not vote for me, even though it had nothing to do with my position.
This merely establishes you as a pervert, and lends zero credibility to the argument.I was sleeping with a 14 year old girl when I was 18.
This is not "Molestation" or "rape". This was a consensual relationship where one of the parties was too young to give consent and the other had her 18th birthday at point in the relationship. But she is not a sexual predator, she's not a "child molester", nor is she a rapist in the classical sense of the word. Stop treating this young person as a monster who will be a lifelong threat to other girls.
Well, to be perfectly honest, there were plenty of 14-year-olds I would have happily banged when I was eighteen. Perhaps I was a pervert. At any rate, I also knew right from wrong, and I knew there is a reason these laws are on the books.
Not really all that strange for seniors to date freshmen. And these days, they have sex. Consensual sex. The law (which determines who can give consent) seems to ignore 'reality' here. Can 2 14 yr olds legally have sex? If not, who gets prosecuted and why?
An 18-year-old adult cannot legally have sex with a minor in Florida.