California Legislature Easing Up Sex Offender Registry Requirements for Sex with Minors

Conservatives, for years, have been warning of the slippery slope that is the LGBTQ+ movement. Conservatives have warned that allowing gay marriage, particularly the arguments for it, could and would one day be used to normalize pedophilia. That day has come, and no surprise, that day has come in California.

California Democrats just passed SB 145 to make it easier for child predators to avoid registering as sex offenders.

The author of the bill was endorsed by Kamala Harris.

She’s running to make the rest of America look like sick, backwards San Francisco.

We can’t let her win.

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 2, 2020

Those who called conservatives paranoid or said no one would ever try to normalize pedophilia were wrong.

From The Daily Caller:

The California legislature passed a law late Monday relaxing sex offender registry requirements for sodomy and other acts with minors in efforts to end “discrimination against LGBTQ young people on the sex offender registry,” according to the bill’s sponsor.

Democratic California state Sen. Scott Weiner, a gay politician who represents San Francisco, first introduced SB 145 in January 2019. The bill “would exempt from mandatory registration under the act a person convicted of certain offenses involving minors if the person is not more than 10 years older than the minor and if that offense is the only one requiring the person to register,” according to the text of the legislation.

This bill is the first step in decriminalizing pedophilia. The proponents, of course, are cloaking the cover of LGBTQ+ rights. How insulting to gay and lesbians across the nation, the vast, vast majority of whom would not support their identity being used as cover for pedophilia.

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Though minors cannot legally consent to sex in California, Wiener’s bill would allow a judge to decide whether or not to place an adult on the sex-offender registry if a teenager between the ages of 14 to 17 had sex with that adult.

Apparently, the current law in California allows judges to not place male offenders on the sex offender registry if they have vaginal sex with a female who is not more than 10 years younger than them.

To California, I say that is also a terrible law. Any 24-year-old engaging in sexual activity with any 14-year-old should be placed on a sex offender registry. I don’t care if it’s man-boy, man-girl, woman-boy, woman-girl.

But instead of fixing one atrocious law, California has decided to pass another in SB 145. Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to sign the bill into law.

Senator Shannon Grove (R) spoke out against this legislation and called out those who voted in favor of the bill.

There are times as a Senator when I take great pride in my votes & actions. While I am disgusted by this legislation, I was proud to stand with my Senate Republican colleagues on behalf of families, parents, & children to vote against #SB145 & to help #SaveOurChildren.#CALeg pic.twitter.com/tgl3hggnM0

— Senator Shannon Grove (@ShannonGroveCA) September 2, 2020

It is not just Republicans who are opposed to the legislation. Thankfully, not all Democrats have lost their minds, although, let’s be real, most have.

“I cannot in my mind as a mother understand how sex between a 24-year-old and a 14-year-old could ever be consensual, how it could ever not be a registrable offense,” Democratic California state Rep. Lorena Gonzalez said, according to the Chronicle. “We should never give up on this idea that children should be in no way subject to a predator.”

Senator Wiener fiercely defends his bill. He defends a bad law by pointing to another bad law.

2/ Here’s the actual truth about #SB145, Senator Grove:

-It doesn’t "lower penalties" for statutory rape

-Law enforcement/rape crisis centers support the bill

-Judge/DA can still put people on the registry

-10 year gap CURRENTLY APPLIES to vaginal sex. https://t.co/wFxf0ZwafH

— Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) September 2, 2020

Senator Wiener says that this bill helps stop criminalizing LGBTQ+ youth. It is clear from his choice of language and rhetoric that this man would support making sexual activity between adults and teenagers completely legal. This is just his first step, in my opinion.

Wiener has no moral compass and is depraved. I can’t believe I have to repeat this, but a 24-year-old should not be having sex with a 14-year-old. He wants to normalize pedophilia by cloaking it in terms of LGBTQ+ rights. The reason he wants to couch the argument with that language is because most Americans would agree that consenting adults can have sex with other consenting adults as they wish. This should go without saying, but gay rights do not extend to the right to have sex with minors. They are not one and the same, despite what Senator Wiener says.

Justice prevailed today for #LGBTQ youth, QAnon notwithstanding.

The Legislature just gave final approval to #SB145, ending discrimination against LGBTQ young people on the sex offender registry.

We need to stop criminalizing our LGBTQ youth.

Thank you colleagues! pic.twitter.com/mtRgEq2ql3

— Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) September 1, 2020

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