California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a controversial new law regarding judges’ discretion on whether or not to add individuals to the state’s sex offender registry who have committed sodomy with minors.
Newsom signed the bill, passed by the Democratic-controlled state legislature, into law without comment on Friday, expanding the discretion granted to judges in statutory rape cases, according to ABC 7 News Los Angeles.
California law permitted judges to decide whether to place a man on the sex offender registry if he had consensual intercourse with someone 14 to 17 years old and was not more than 10 years older than the other person. However, that discretion only applied to vaginal intercourse, which LGBT advocates, including the author of the new bill signed into law Friday, argued was discriminatory toward gay men.
“This eliminates discrimination against LGBTQ youth in our criminal justice system,” the bill’s sponsor, San Francisco Democratic state Rep. Scott Wiener, said about the legislation (known as SB 145) that he proposed.
“SB 145 ends discrimination against #LGBTQ young people on the sex offender registry. Currently, these youth are forced onto the registry for consensual sex — even if a judge doesn’t think it’s appropriate — in situations where straight youth are not,” Wiener added on social media. “This discrimination destroys lives.”
Many have criticized the bill, arguing that sex between a teenager and someone 10 years older is never consensual and should always warrant being placed on the sex offender registry.
“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 Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez said when the bill was being debated in the legislature. “We should never give up on this idea that children should be in no way subject to a predator.”
Several Twitter accounts belonging to conservative politicians and personalities tweeted out criticism of Newsom following his decision to sign the bill into law.
“As a parent I’m appalled that last night our governor signed a law maintaining a 24-year-old can have sex with a 14-year-old and it not be considered predatory,” San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer tweeted. “An adult who commits ANY sex act on a minor 10 years younger must be registered a sex offender. Law must be changed.”
“Disgusting: Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed SB 145 to allow 24-year-olds to have sex with 14-year-olds without being required to register as a sex offender,” California politician Carl DeMaio, a gay man himself, tweeted
The above comes from a Sept. 12 story in the Washington Examiner.
According to a Sept. 2 posting on Arthur Scheper, Lorena Gonzalez did vote for SB145.
Of course he did. Does anyone expect that man to support Biblical values. Obviously not.
So the one called Your Fellow Catholic has got his wish. Will he acknowledge guilt when kids are harmed by this new law, doubt it.
State Senator Lena Gonzalez voted yes. Lorena Gonzalez is in the assembly, and she actually did vote no.
Hard to imagine anything good coming out of this bill.
How far California and the Democrat party has come. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley and spent most of my young adult life there the changes in California are jaw dropping and have turned into a utter and complete disaster. There is a bright spot in the sense that California is a majority Hispanic state now and with that Catholic, I firmly believe that Latinos are waking up to the fact that hey, we are actually a conservative people and have more in common with the Republican party than the Socialist anti-God pro-abortion Democrat party. If you saw over the weekend in Las Vegas, Miami, Phoenix, and of all places Laredo Texas a blue city in a Red state there were thousands and thousands of Latinos in the crowds of Trump’s rallies and in Laredo, Texas miles of cars and trucks with Trump flags and banners. Latinos are waking up to the fact that Trump is the one who cares about them and I can say that for African-Americans as well, every weekend in Beverly Hills there is a “Rescue America Rally” and look at the faces in the crowd: Brown, Black, Asian, White. Trump is the president of all Americans.
It makes sense if you accept the premise that, prior to this new law, sentencing discriminated unfairly against gay sex. All I mean is that if society is going to accept the fiction of gay marriage, it is legally inconsistent for society to require sex offender registry for gay sex with minors but not for natural sex with minors. If you accept the premise that any sex is morally acceptable, as the Democrats do, then signing this law to eliminate a perceived unfair discrimination against gay sex makes sense. Purely a legal analysis. Of course, gay sex is morally abhorrent, but our society is way past that and it ain’t gonna go back to the way it was.
When society, via Supreme Court decision, accepted that sterile contracepted sex was ok, also accepted was the idea that sterile homosexual sex was ok too. All sex became equal, naturally following was that sterile homosexual “marriage” was ok and there are plenty more abominations to come that will follow this false narrative. Yes, put it back onto contraception, which the Church rightly, and still, condemns.
So, if a homosexual priest sexually abuses a teen boy (the vast majority of priest sex abuse cases), then you’re saying that if he can somehow convince a court that it was consensual that he shouldn’t have to register as a sex offender?!
That’s tragic. May you and all of us as a society come to reject the abuse of minors (and all persons).
Dear anonymous clergyman: That is exactly what the law said a month ago, but only when it pertained to to priests with a teen altar girl. We ought to be upset with Tthat law as it sat a year ago, and Tthis law. Personally, I think both ought to be thrown out the window.
Sodomous rape on either a boy or a girl or man or woman deserves a hasher penalty because it is a misuse and abuse of the body. In fact if a man rapes a woman both ways, he should be charged with both crimes. End of discuss with you’ll.
Then you are an equal opportunity supporter of statutory rape.
Even though there are more altar girls than altar boys, the predatory Priests stick to raping altar boys. That is one of those things that make me go hmmmnnnn.
But let’s not forget that the majority of abuse was homosexual abuse.
Gruesome Newsom strikes again.
I thought he was “any twosome” Newsom.
After this bill, just plain “Ewwsom” will suffice.
God I hope California wakes up from it’s liberal sleep and vote Trump in November.
Or as they call it over at Drag Queen Story Hour, a good start.
It looks the Democratic Party wants to legalize the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandals. Don’t expect the police to protect you from sexual abuse. You are on your own.