{"id":3954,"date":"2023-04-26T14:29:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T18:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2023-04-26T14:29:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T18:29:46","slug":"democrats-want-to-legally-protect-pedophiles-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/news\/democrats-want-to-legally-protect-pedophiles-in-minnesota\/paul-crespo\/2023\/04\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Want To Legally Protect Pedophiles In Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ALERT<\/strong> \u2013 Could your state be next? In yet another insane proposal in the left\u2019s radical \u2018gender bending\u2019 agenda, a bill in the Minnesota Legislature<\/a> is changing the definition of \u201csexual orientation\u201d to include pedophilia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an extreme and radical move that would make pedophiles a legally protected class of people in the state. And it isn\u2019t getting the attention it deserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This sickening bill, promoted by 17 of the state\u2019s Democrats, is working its way through the legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has a growing list of sponsors and has already had its \u201csecond reading,\u201d which means it can appear on the floor for a vote at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does this make the state’s Democrats “sexual groomers” of children?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s also a natural, if perverse, continuation of the extreme ideology which makes gender identity and transgenderism a priority for the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill shows how their slippery slope works at the state level, which eventually moves to other states, and then to the federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, you create a law that makes sexual orientation a protected class by prohibiting discrimination of any kind based on sexual orientation. In Minnesota, as in many other places, that law has been around for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laws like that are used to support countless far-left lawsuits, discriminatory quotas and all the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives that are wreaking havoc across America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then you quietly amend that law to remove a provision that excludes pedophilia as a legitimate sexual orientation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, they have deliberately stricken the provisions of the current law that specifically carved out pedophilia from the definition of sexual orientation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current law says: \u201cSexual orientation does not<\/strong> include a physical or sexual attachment to children.\u201d [emphasis added]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in the new Democrat proposal, that line will be removed, essentially making pedophiles a protected class along with transgender people and every other sexual orientation the left can invent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pedophiles will also get the same legal protections against discrimination as gays and lesbians, who legitimately deserve it, and be lumped together with them in the same legal category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this amendment to current law won\u2019t make pedophilia \u201clegal\u201d (yet) in Minnesota, discrimination against pedophiles will be prohibited if this bill becomes law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does this actually mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Strom explains<\/a> in Hot Air that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You will be subject to lawsuits if you discriminate against pedophiles. You have to hire them, house them, and serve them in your restaurant regardless of your objection to their evil desires. They will have more rights than you. Because they are pedophiles.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Strom adds: \u201c<\/em>anybody who wants to opt out of affirming crazy people will be turned into targets of lawsuits and harassment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And legalization will come soon after. He continues: \u201c\u2026the next stop is going to be explicitly legalizing pedophilia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strom notes<\/a> how this part of the left\u2019s slippery slope works, too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once the Rubicon of declaring children mature enough to make lifetime medical decisions at ages as young as 8 it makes no sense to assert that they aren\u2019t mature enough to engage in \u201cconsensual\u201d relationships. If you can get permission from a child to sterilize and mutilate them, why stop there? They have been essentially declared adults in sexual matters.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He concludes, not wrongly: \u201cThe Democrat Party is becoming the party of sexual groomers. It really is that simple.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of Great America News Desk.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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