Friday, March 24, 2006
Deviancy defined downward, again.
Well, I'm certain someone thinks this is progress...
Oh, goodie.
Yee-haw! This is just what we need to be doing for our kids. Let's take away the whole "15 will get you 20" stigma. Because, Heaven knows there just aren't enough kids having enough sex these days. Yep! That's the ticket!
Oh, but Rep. DePoy - you may not be trying to condone it - but you sure as hell are condoning it.
Genius.
No no no, kids - even though we're saying that it's A-OK to be having sex when you're all sophomores in High School, we're sure as heck not condoning it. No sirree! Not us!
Well what the heck, Sen. Sears - why don't we just eliminate teen anti-drinking laws. I mean, they're going to drink anyway and no one ever got pregnant from drinking. Right? After all, since 15-year olds are not old enough to drive yet, the worse thing that will happen is that they puke all over themselves - which, come to think of it, is likely to make them less sexually attractive.
It's a win-win! Let's do it!!
Surely, the anti-domestic-violence lobby thinks this is a bad idea. Right?
After all, we don't want to make it more likely that kids will be engaging in risky behaviors at a younger and younger age. Right? Right?
Oh, swell. At least someone in this story makes some sense...
Pity it's not any of the elected officials.
Well said, Ms. Kenney. But heck - what's the biggie? Let's just break down one of the last real barriers parents of High School Freshmen and Sophomores have against their kids early sexual exploits - the possibility that "15 will get you 20".
And we slide just a little further down.
I give it a week before some Profile in Courage in the Massachusetts legislature forwards this "progressive" proposal.
Because, it's all about the kids. Right?
Lawmakers try to accommodate consensual teen sex
Oh, goodie.
MONTPELIER, Vt. --A Senate committee has taken up a House-passed bill that seeks to decriminalize sex between consenting teenagers, so long as they're both at least 15 and within three years in age.
Yee-haw! This is just what we need to be doing for our kids. Let's take away the whole "15 will get you 20" stigma. Because, Heaven knows there just aren't enough kids having enough sex these days. Yep! That's the ticket!
"We didn't want to subject those kids to being a sex offender that would be put on the registry for life," Rep. Thomas DePoy, R-Rutland, said in a reference to the state's sex-offender registry. "It doesn't mean we're trying to condone it."
Oh, but Rep. DePoy - you may not be trying to condone it - but you sure as hell are condoning it.
Genius.
Sen. Richard Sears, D-Bennington, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, agreed the aim was not to condone teen sex. But he said he knows of cases where young lives have been ruined as a high school romance results in a permanent criminal record and dashed college hopes.
No no no, kids - even though we're saying that it's A-OK to be having sex when you're all sophomores in High School, we're sure as heck not condoning it. No sirree! Not us!
"This issue isn't about whether kids should have sex, but the question is should it be a criminal offense," Sears said.
Well what the heck, Sen. Sears - why don't we just eliminate teen anti-drinking laws. I mean, they're going to drink anyway and no one ever got pregnant from drinking. Right? After all, since 15-year olds are not old enough to drive yet, the worse thing that will happen is that they puke all over themselves - which, come to think of it, is likely to make them less sexually attractive.
It's a win-win! Let's do it!!
Surely, the anti-domestic-violence lobby thinks this is a bad idea. Right?
After all, we don't want to make it more likely that kids will be engaging in risky behaviors at a younger and younger age. Right? Right?
Sarah Kenney, public policy coordinator with the Vermont Network Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, urged against lowering the age of consent further or widening the age gap beyond three years. Lowering the age another year and allowing a four-year age difference could allow sex between a 14-year-old and an 18-year-old.
Oh, swell. At least someone in this story makes some sense...
Pity it's not any of the elected officials.
"You can have a 14-year-old and you're all over the map in terms of maturity level," Kenney said.
Well said, Ms. Kenney. But heck - what's the biggie? Let's just break down one of the last real barriers parents of High School Freshmen and Sophomores have against their kids early sexual exploits - the possibility that "15 will get you 20".
And we slide just a little further down.
I give it a week before some Profile in Courage in the Massachusetts legislature forwards this "progressive" proposal.
Because, it's all about the kids. Right?
# posted by Doc J @ 9:00 AM 
