Wherein morality and emotionalism join forces to become a united front for asinine legislation and infantilization of adults:
"If they're a student I just think they're off bounds regardless of their age," said Rep. Warren Chisum, who led the fight to broaden the law. "I felt like if we didn't do that we just virtually made it open season on students that are 18 years old."
In other words, we won't allow students who are legal adults to have consensual sexual relationships with other adults because the honorable representative Chisum knows better than them. One has to wonder if he would feel this way about someone in their mid twenties having a sexual relationship with her. I bet he supports the 18 year old student being able to hold a job, join the military and vote. Hell, being from Texas and a Republican, he no doubt would have no problem executing the student for a cold-blooded murder.
But consensual sex, man that's just impossible for a man to handle because even though he is a legal adult, he is a student!
It's too bad that there aren't laws that hold legislators like to equally asinine standards like "felony failure to legislate intelligently." I'd be willing to draft something like that just to teach them what it feels like to be on the receiving end.
felony failure to legislate intelligently
Great line, couldn't have said it better myself! Yeah, if the guy is 18 let him decide what's appropriate in this context. Old enough to vote and fight, old enough where he's going to sleep, and with whom.
Being Canadian, I'm not sure how much experience you have with dealing with conservative, yeehaw Republicans like Chisum, but these guys are usually real pains in the ass to deal with. Calling them hemroids would be a step up on the totem pole...
My first question in cases like this is why the hell would someone keep their minors in a school with this sort of problem? Then, why would anymore care to not hold a legal adult's actions against his or her conscience over something like this? God sees this sin, it is not destructive on this side of eternity per se, and God will deal with it in His own way. Unfortunately most of these Republican good ol' boys are Baptists who all but reject God's sovereignty in practice and believe, like the Pharisees, that they gotta do something now...
"what it feels like to be on the receiving end"...
Oh how I know how that feels.
Uh huh.