• Encrypt-Keeper
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        78 months ago

        Do not take this as an endorsement of his behavior because it’s still repulsive, but the reason why it wasn’t referred to as “statutory rape” is because it isn’t. “Had sex with a minor” is the most accurate and sufficiently accusatory phrase they could use. If he and the minor were from Arkansas where the age of consent is 16, then apart from being morally wrong, it’s not illegal.

  • @[email protected]
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    168 months ago

    man who had sex with a minor

    The terms “pedophile” and “rapist” exist, why use such soft terms to describe such an awful human?

    • @shalafi
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      58 months ago

      She was 17 and the age of consent in AR is 16.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        Are you saying that AR’s consent laws are fucked or that sex with a minor is A-okay if it’s legal where somebody lives?

  • Treczoks
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    138 months ago

    This man had sex with a girl, which in their eyes is better than any LGBTQ stuff could ever be.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    78 months ago

    Huckabee doesn’t care about the safety of kids or the evils of non-straight sex. She cares about the transnational white power movement (and / or the Christian nationalist movement. There’s a lot of intersection.) If you’re a member of the movement, then, from Huckabee’s position, you deserve protection and promotion no matter what wrongdoing you might have committed. And if you’re outside the movement, you deserve condemnation and persecution even if you’ve done no wrong.

    • @Kyrgizion
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      78 months ago

      More like secretly full siblings.