The bill would make some sense if the age gap was closer. A lot of college kids are having sex with high school kids. But as with most things these days the protected classes are the benefactors. Pederasts can now pederast without fear.
I remember looking into this when the story was new. The "equality" was in extending the same judicial discretion already allowed for hetero sex offenders to the alphabet community. They went a little wide on the age gap but horny teens do stupid things and sending a newly minted adult out into the world branded as a sex offender because the judge had no legal discretion isn't my idea of a good thing. If you want to scream about something why aren't you questioning the laws already in place when this was passed? The ones that allowed wealthy or connected Hollywood types to offend over and over again while some sympathetic judge kept them off the registry?
The bill would make some sense if the age gap was closer. A lot of college kids are having sex with high school kids. But as with most things these days the protected classes are the benefactors. Pederasts can now pederast without fear.
I remember looking into this when the story was new. The "equality" was in extending the same judicial discretion already allowed for hetero sex offenders to the alphabet community. They went a little wide on the age gap but horny teens do stupid things and sending a newly minted adult out into the world branded as a sex offender because the judge had no legal discretion isn't my idea of a good thing. If you want to scream about something why aren't you questioning the laws already in place when this was passed? The ones that allowed wealthy or connected Hollywood types to offend over and over again while some sympathetic judge kept them off the registry?