And this is why the "groomer" name calling epidemic is so sinister. They are close to making being non CIS presenting illegal and tantamount to being a child rapist.
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What context are we talking about? Are you saying that LGBTQ folks are being labeled as groomers?
Edit: downvoted for asking a question.
I think that's what OP is saying, that conservatives are (and have been) trying to associate the word "groomer" as being a purely LGBTQ+ thing, and that no straight man or woman is capable of child rape. We all know that's false, as just about everything we see in regards to child rape has been done by white males (priests and alter boys, for example) and white females (teachers having sex with students, for example).
cultsuperstar already answered, but I want you to know I agree that it’s nonsensical to downvote questions. Others may have the same question, and downvoting it will only hide the question and answer from view.
Are you saying that LGBTQ folks are being labeled as groomers?
It's been going on for a long time now - where have you been living?
I've heard something about trans folks and bathrooms or lockers, but that's about it.
...because the threat of a death penalty worked so well to eliminate the occurrence of other crimes.
I’m sure the first victim will be a rich white man.
No. The convictions for rich white men will go as well as the Trump convictions have gone thus far.
The convictions will go through quickly for the LGBTQ community because that is where the allegations will be thrown at, and the jury will be hung for anyone cis white male, and will be unanimous in the conviction of everyone else.
I think homie was being sarcastic.
Is this an Epstein reference?
Geez how crazy is it that I misread this as 'death penalty for child rape victims' and was like 'yo that's fucked up... But I'm not surprised '
Does it apply if the rapist has married the victim?
Then who’s going to teach bible camp?
The danger with something like this is, if the punishment is the same for raping as killing, why would a rapist leave the victim alive?
And convictions of innocent people who are killed by the state just increase. We should believe victims, but also ensure the rights of the accused.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Bill Lee has approved legislation allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions, a change the Republican-controlled Statehouse championed amid concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment in such cases.
The new Tennessee law, which goes into effect July 1, authorizes the state to pursue capital punishment when an adult is convicted of aggravated rape of a child.
A few months after being enacted, Florida prosecutors in Lake County announced in December that they were pursuing the death penalty for a man accused of committing sexual battery of a minor under the age of twelve.
However, they hope the conservative-controlled Supreme Court will reverse that ruling — pointing to the decades long effort that it took to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide but was eventually overruled in 2022.
The Supreme Court ruled nearly 40 years ago that execution is too harsh a punishment for sexual assault, and justices made a similar decision in 2008 in a case involving the rape of a child.
Lee issued the pause after a blistering 2022 report detailed multiple flaws in how Tennessee inmates were put to death.
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