{"id":9344,"date":"2011-05-15T11:24:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T15:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9344"},"modified":"2011-05-15T11:24:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T15:24:46","slug":"texas-on-the-verge-of-righting-a-major-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/15\/texas-on-the-verge-of-righting-a-major-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas on the verge of righting a major wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freerangekids.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/14\/you-mean-18-y-o-s-with-16-y-o-girlfriends-arent-sex-offenders\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lenore Skenazy<\/a> is delighted that Texas is about to enact a law that removes one of the stupidest situations in modern law enforcement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hey Readers! Once in a while, common sense actually wins a biggie. That\u2019s what\u2019s  happening right now in Texas, where the governor seems set to sign a \u201cRomeo &#038; Juliet\u201d bill that would prevent teens and young adults who have consensual sex from ending up as official \u201cSex Offenders,\u201d required to register for life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the kind of insane law that would charge an underage couple who&#8217;d had sex &mdash; charging each of them as sex offenders for having sex with the other &mdash; with both of them ending up on the sexual offenders list for life.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That is beyond crazy. That is LIFE ruining &mdash; and for what? Who does it help? No one. Who does it hurt? The very people it is supposed to protect: young people.<\/p>\n<p>Thank god the legislature had the gumption to re-introduce the Romeo &amp; Juliet bill, which the Governor, Rick Perry, vetoed in 2009. Let\u2019s give a big hand to its sponsors: Texas State Rep. Todd Smith and Texas Sen. Royce West (one Democrat and one Republican &mdash; this is NOT a partisan issue)!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenore Skenazy is delighted that Texas is about to enact a law that removes one of the stupidest situations in modern law enforcement: Hey Readers! Once in a while, common sense actually wins a biggie. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening right now in Texas, where the governor seems set to sign a \u201cRomeo &#038; Juliet\u201d bill that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,13],"tags":[255,504,386,417],"class_list":["post-9344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-sexuality","tag-teenagers","tag-texas","tag-victimlesscrime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2qI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9345,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344\/revisions\/9345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}