Equal Protection Of The Law And Abstinence Only Sex Education
The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution clearly states that no government can “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws“. Yet despite this boys whom are the victims of statutory rape are regarded as consenting while girls are not. Never mind that the ideal of statutory rape is that despite the fact that the teenager consented to have sex they were not emotionally or mentally mature enough to do so.
When the United State became a country we had beliefs about minors and their reasoning ability that we have since abandoned much to our regret. In William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England even if both parties consented they still could not marry if their parents did not also consent. John Locke’s Treatise on Civil Governments also stated that Parents had complete authority over their child’s actions provided they did not knowingly use it to harm the children or themselves. The reason for this is because children are not able to judge well and that parents love their children and try to look out for their child’s best interest.
Evidence shows that teenager’s brains are still developing until their early 20’s and that this developing impedes their judgment. This evidence just states that the founders of the United States were right when they held natural law to be self evident and factual.
My thoughts on this issue was stimilated by reading an USA Today article by Wendy Koch titled "More women charged in sex cases". It tells how women get lighter sentences than men for the same crime because boys are regarded as not being victimized. In fact our society gives boys the view that they should take sex wherever they can get it. The later is just one of the society myths that President Bush is attempting to fight with his Abstinence only sex education policy. Planned Parenthood and its allies like ACLU, NOW and NARAL oppose him on this.
So once again liberals stand for child molestation and against the true liberal ideals and rights that made are country great. They do this despite all the evidence to the contrary. That just goes to show that they are fanatics as well as tyrants.
When the United State became a country we had beliefs about minors and their reasoning ability that we have since abandoned much to our regret. In William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England even if both parties consented they still could not marry if their parents did not also consent. John Locke’s Treatise on Civil Governments also stated that Parents had complete authority over their child’s actions provided they did not knowingly use it to harm the children or themselves. The reason for this is because children are not able to judge well and that parents love their children and try to look out for their child’s best interest.
Evidence shows that teenager’s brains are still developing until their early 20’s and that this developing impedes their judgment. This evidence just states that the founders of the United States were right when they held natural law to be self evident and factual.
My thoughts on this issue was stimilated by reading an USA Today article by Wendy Koch titled "More women charged in sex cases". It tells how women get lighter sentences than men for the same crime because boys are regarded as not being victimized. In fact our society gives boys the view that they should take sex wherever they can get it. The later is just one of the society myths that President Bush is attempting to fight with his Abstinence only sex education policy. Planned Parenthood and its allies like ACLU, NOW and NARAL oppose him on this.
So once again liberals stand for child molestation and against the true liberal ideals and rights that made are country great. They do this despite all the evidence to the contrary. That just goes to show that they are fanatics as well as tyrants.
posted by Kerwin | 2:26 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home