From article:
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) stated in 2010 in response to a church sex scandal that he believes 13-year-old children can consent to sex.
Lankford made the comments when he was serving as director of youth programming at the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center. He gave deposition after the family of a 13-year-old girl sued a 15-year-old boy who allegedly had sex with her while at a camp run by the church group.
“Yes, I think they can,” Lankford said about a 13-year-old child’s ability to consent while being questioned by an attorney.
Attorney Kenyatta Bethea pressed further, asking whether or not his position would change “if I ask you that question in terms of your position as a father.” Lankford was adamant about the child’s ability to consent.
“Yes, they can,” he said, adding that he “would not encourage that [behavior] at all” for his children though.
In addition to being a Pedo-RINO, Lankford is also a cowardly weak Republican who folds after the slightest hint of pressure.
Big League Politics has reported on Lankford apologizing and pandering to racial special interest groups for opposing election fraud in the 2020 presidential election:
“Since last week’s siege on the U.S. Capitol, there has been a tremendous amount of groveling from Republican cowards desperate to save face and avoid media scrutiny, but Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) has taken it to a new low.
Lankford issued a letter apologizing to his black constituents for opposing electoral fraud. He is sorry because the areas that committed the most fraud just so happened to be diverse inner-city communities. Multiculturalism means that fraud is ignored, and it is our national strength. This is the credo of the New America.
The Oklahoma senator wrote that his efforts “caused a firestorm of suspicion among many of my friends, particularly in Black communities around the state. I was completely blindsided, but I also found a blind spot.”
“What I did not realize was all of the national conversation about states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, was seen as casting doubt on the validity of votes coming out of predominantly Black communities like Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Detroit,” he wrote.
“After decades of fighting for voting rights, many Black friends in Oklahoma saw this as a direct attack on their right to vote, for their vote to matter, and even a belief that their votes made an election in our country illegitimate,” he added.
Lankford’s pathetic obsequious letter apologizing for fighting the vote steal shows why the Republican Party is dying, and Republican politicians are despised by their own rank-and-file party members. There is little difference between a GOP elected official and a social justice activist these days.”
On Tuesday’s upcoming U.S. Senate primary, Oklahoma should replace Lankford with his America First opponent, pastor Jackson Lahmeyer. Lankford can be retired to attend pizza parties on his own dime.
I never liked or trusted him much I will defently vote for for his opponent.
I'm an Okie and very much anti-Lankford for many reasons but this is not a Pedo issue. This wasn't adults preying upon children, this is a 13 yo and a 15 yo. I cannot argue consent but kids do as kids do. Falls Creek has many derogatory pseudonyms associated with it such as "The Baptist Breeding Camp". I was there as a kid in the 70's and have an idea of what occurs.
I cannot forgive him for his post election pandering. I spoke with him on election night 2020. I was at the watch party and was fan of his until he folded to political pressure to change his stance on the election theft.
I have thoughts on this, but have learned there is no way to win in this argument, so I keep my mouth shut.
It is entirely unrealistic to think that some thirteen-year olds aren't burning to have sex, and do, and by fifteen it's even more so. I could tell such stories--I think the issue is "consent" when consequences aren't understood.