It's intentionally misleading, I'm sorry. He signed a bill making the penalties for gay men sleeping with minors of the same sex the same as straight men sleeping with minors of the opposite sex. This has been rehashed here 100 times. I'm not sure why people want to keep misrepresenting it. Newsome is bad enough, we really don't have to stretch the truth to prove that.
Basically, California, like most states, is lenient on this rule if the minor has hit the age of consent, which is usually around puberty, and the adult is not more than 10 years older than them. It's a factor they take into consideration when sentencing straight adults who do it to the opposite sex, but not gay adults who do it with the same sex. That, by definition, is discrimination. You can argue that the law should be made stricter for straight people, but you can't really argue with a straight face that such legal discrepancy should be allowed to remain.
And also, I'm not sure why so many people here keep pretending there's not a difference between molesting a prepubescent CHILD, and a post-pubescent teenager who looks like an adult, but they're very different. Both illegal, rightfully so, but very, very different, and should be treated as such under the law. It's only rational.
Yeah an old story, it joined the 'let people maliciously infect others with AIDS' bill in CA. Because you know, there were too many gays being arrested for giving people AIDS, so the law was clearly targeted to unfairly discriminate against the precious disease spreaders. I guess the anti child-rape laws unfairly targeted the same moral paragons.
But gotta wear your mask and vax up to stop covid I guess. Honk honk.
Ugh, that was like a year ago but yes, it's true.
Sept 12 2020
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gov-newsom-signs-controversial-bill-into-law-reducing-penalties-for-sexual-relations-with-minors
It's intentionally misleading, I'm sorry. He signed a bill making the penalties for gay men sleeping with minors of the same sex the same as straight men sleeping with minors of the opposite sex. This has been rehashed here 100 times. I'm not sure why people want to keep misrepresenting it. Newsome is bad enough, we really don't have to stretch the truth to prove that.
Basically, California, like most states, is lenient on this rule if the minor has hit the age of consent, which is usually around puberty, and the adult is not more than 10 years older than them. It's a factor they take into consideration when sentencing straight adults who do it to the opposite sex, but not gay adults who do it with the same sex. That, by definition, is discrimination. You can argue that the law should be made stricter for straight people, but you can't really argue with a straight face that such legal discrepancy should be allowed to remain.
And also, I'm not sure why so many people here keep pretending there's not a difference between molesting a prepubescent CHILD, and a post-pubescent teenager who looks like an adult, but they're very different. Both illegal, rightfully so, but very, very different, and should be treated as such under the law. It's only rational.
Yeah an old story, it joined the 'let people maliciously infect others with AIDS' bill in CA. Because you know, there were too many gays being arrested for giving people AIDS, so the law was clearly targeted to unfairly discriminate against the precious disease spreaders. I guess the anti child-rape laws unfairly targeted the same moral paragons.
But gotta wear your mask and vax up to stop covid I guess. Honk honk.
Yea and wear it incorrectly to boot.
Nice new flair useage