Check out today’s NY Times editorial on the Kansas craziness I wrote about yesterday. Glad to know I’m not the only one freaked out by logic that says statutory rape is all good so long as you get married:
The fact that parents are willing to go along with these unions does not make them right. Chances are that in most of these cases, as apparently happened with Mr. Koso’s family, when the parents found out that a baby was on the way, they were eager for the child to be born to married parents. But neither parental nor state approval makes it right to tie a girl as young as 12 to another person in what is supposed to be a lifetime commitment.
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So….
It’s okay for a 12 year old girl to get an abortion without her parents consent but not okay for her to get married with it?
Just pointing out the flawless liberal logic.
Reality Check.
It’s WRONG for a 12 year old to get married under ANY conditions.
It’s WRONG for a 12 year old to be sexualy active under ANY conditions and get an abortion without her parents knowledge.
Get some sense of right and wrong people.
It’s WRONG for a grown man to have sex with a 12-year-old girl.
She is not her parents’ property. *Her* body is the one that’s pregnant, SHE is the one who has the right to decide what to do with it.
Only one problem with your
comment. I hear it coming
way too often from the mouths of
parents of 13, 14, 15, and 16-year
old boys who get their kicks
going around knocking up
girls this young and ruining
these girls’ lives. Try
comparing Matt Koso to Levi
Johnston, and you will find
that Matt Koso has a much
more human heart than Levi
Johnston. Sure, Levi Johnston
was only one year older
than Bristol Palin (Sara
Palin’s daughter)when he started
having sex with her and she was 14,
but look at what a vicious SOB he
turned out to be. Our country
contiues to have the most draconian
age of consent laws of any nation, but
at the same time, our society is lax
about doing anything about these
teenaged punks who physically and
sexually abuse their girlfriends.
The other night I saw a program
about this 16-year old boy who
threatened his 15-year old girlfriend
that he would harm her if he didn’t
have his baby. Holland’s age of
consent was 21 up until 1990. They
reformed their age of consent laws
to legalize minors as young as 16 and
to allow minors as young as 12 to
contest a statutory rape charge against
their significant other to a government
agency known as the Council for the
Protection of Children.
This has been an age-old
debate. However, in support
of your comment, let me
give you some valuable
history on the matter. In
1843, a great controversy
stirred up in Spain as to
whether or not to allow
Isabel II to be crowned the
Queen of Spain at the age
of 13. The laws in that
country normally did not
allow for anyone younger than
14 years old to take their
position on the throne.
However, Isabel II fought this matter
in their courts and became
the Queen of Spain at the
age of 13. She remained
in power of that country
until she was 38 years old.
People can quibble with
you and me on this issue
on how old is old enough,
but they cannot argue with the
facts.
This has been an age-old
debate. However, in support
of your comment, let me
give you some valuable
history on the matter. In
1843, a great controversy
stirred up in Spain as to
whether or not to allow
Isabel II to be crowned the
Queen of Spain at the age
of 13. The laws in that
country normally did not
allow for anyone younger than
14 years old to take their
position on the throne.
However, Isabel II fought this matter
in their courts and became
the Queen of Spain at the
age of 13. She remained
in power of that country
until she was 38 years old.
People can quibble with
you and me on this issue
on how old is old enough,
but they cannot argue with the
facts.
But you know something? The
problem I have with this
country’s criminal justice
system and its society is
that both entities automatically
assume that just because
something is taboo, it should
automatically be a crime.
For example, most of us would
agree that it’s way out of
whack for a 29-year old man to be
living off of a rich 89-year
old woman, and anyone with
a mother that old would be
appalled at the notion.
However, there is no law
against it. Now why is it
that despite the realities
of teens being sexually
active at younger ages and
less discriminating about
the ages of their partners,
nowhere in our country do
prosecutors have the
burden of proving in a
statutory rape trial that an
alleged victim suffered
actual harm from a sexual
experience? “Strict
liability” is just a fancy
legal term for “Travesty
of justice”.
At one time, the age of
consent in the Netherlands
was 21 years old. In 1990,
the Dutch Parliament realized
the stupidity of jailing
21 and 22-year old men for
having sexual relations with
their 19-year old girlfriends.
The Dutch Parliament also
realized that many statutory
rape cases involving
adolescent girls as young as
12 years old were frivolous
and malicious in light of
the reality that girls that
young were much more likely
to suffer physical and
sexual abuse at the hands
of boys their own age rather
than older men inasmuch as
adolescent boys had the most
access to them. In 1990,
the Dutch Parliament, therefore
lowered their country’s age
of consent to 16 years old
and created a government
agency called the Council
for the Protection of Children
where minors between 12
and 15 years old could
contest a charge of statutory
rape against their significant
other. The agency has the
power to force the police and
the criminal court to rescind
the statutory rape charges
against the alleged
perpretrator if they feel
that the ends of justice
will not be served even if
the alleged perpetrator is
as guilty as hell of engaging
in sexual conduct with the
alleged victim. This all
makes better sense than the
laws we have here in the U.S.
Matt Koso would have
probably been acquitted in
Holland if his situation
with Crystal Guyer had
occurred there instead.
Let’s stop picking on the
Matt Kosos of the world and
focus our anger against
first-class lechers like
Levi Johnston. I don’t care
if Levi Johnston was only
one year older than Bristol
Palin (Sarah Palin’s daughter)
when he started having sex
with her when she was just
14. He threw her and his
own child under the bus and
has gone so far as to
capitalize on it all. Such
disgraceful things would be
way below a gentleman like
Matt Koso. Sorry, Jessica,
but I’m just someone who
completely rejects the
Pedophile Panic.