The Left’s Morality Police

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Every couple of weeks a story appears in the news about some crazy lawsuit.  The kind that lead to the ever-growing universe of jokes about lawyers and politicians.  Cato Institute’s Walter Olsen, for one, never seems to have any trouble finding enough of these tails from litigation wonderland to fill up his blog Overlawyered.  Stories like “Thwarted Armed Robber Sues Pizzeria Employees for Injuries”.

With the internet and 24/7 news cycle, combined with the sheer number of lawyers and potential clients out there, we should not be surprised.  There is, however, the sense with many if not most of the stories that at some point the adults will enter the picture.  That they will relieve these unhinged folks of their notions that the courts are some kind of slot machine or dartboard at which they can take a random stab at striking it rich if they happen to find the right jury.

Recently, though, the insanity was elevated from ambulance-chasing lawyers to actual elected officials in one state with the power to make laws.  These politicians have now actually mandated how exactly women are permitted to engage in sexual activity.

You might figure the culprits must be, say, Rick Perry and the Texas legislature, or perhaps the elected officials of a similarly conservative state such as Utah.  After all, it is only those reactionary right-wing morality police who would do such a thing, right?  Wrong.  It is actually – wait for it – Governor Jerry Brown and the California Legislature.  They have decided – overwhelmingly, no less – to enter the sanctity of all young women’s bedrooms on university campuses to decree new sex rules for all students.

“CA BILL DEMANDS VERBAL OR WRITTEN CONSENT FOR SEX ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES”

The first thing that came to mind when reading the story from the above quoted headline was: come on, there’s no way that politicians – even in California – could be so ridiculous.  Surely there are enough legislators from outside the Bay Area and LA to show some common sense, right?  Gov. Jerry Brown must have the minimum critical thinking skills to understand that this is a recipe for disaster, and will make their universities laughing stocks, all the while diminishing the significance of actual assaults.

Well, Jerry Brown signed the bill into law after the Senate voted for it unanimously, and the assembly passed it 57-20.  You can’t make this stuff up.  Just in case you’re not clear by the headline exactly what this new law does that is so odious to any and all who value liberty, it essentially turns most sexual encounters on universities into sexual assaults.  Excuse me – what?!?  You read it right.  It requires all schools to enact a standard whereby each and every intimate interaction be officially sanctioned with “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity.”

This means that you are not allowed to just walk up and give your girlfriend, significant other or fiancée a kiss…because you didn’t receive specific permission to do so.  “The existence of a dating relationship between the persons involved, or the fact of past sexual relations between them, should never by itself be assumed to be an indicator of consent.”  So, just because you may have kissed the girl a hundred times before, you cannot assume consent.  Doing so makes one guilty of assault.

Surely that must be an exaggeration, you say – surely that is the tea party line meant to drum up more contempt for California lefties, right?

Well, the Los Angeles Times, hardly a bastion of conservative thought, commented:

It seems extremely difficult and extraordinarily intrusive to micromanage sex so closely as to tell young people what steps they must take in the privacy of their own dorm rooms. Colleges, to their credit, are struggling to clarify and strengthen their policies on sexual misconduct, and are seeking to provide better support for victims of sexual assault in the face of growing concern about the issue. But must they become so prescriptive as to try to set rules about exactly how sex should proceed? There are serious questions about whether such a policy is either reasonable or enforceable.

They forgot to add, legal.  Does the state of California actually think it has the power to mandate how people interact in their most intimate moments? The fact that the state, of course, has no legal power to do so will hopefully render this legislation moot when examined by a court.

But what this is really about is making it easier to punish men on campus.  To make them pay for being such predators.  It is designed to address a phony crisis, a manufactured claim that one in five college women will be sexually assaulted by the time they graduate.  This is a demonstrably false claim – now amounting to a blood libel against half of humanity.  There are entrenched interests that depend on the victimization of women for their base of power, and the more women who are made into victims, the more power they have.  We have seen this same thing from the race hustlers – what use does Al Sharpton have for a world without victims of racism?

“The bigger the lie, the more they believe”.  If we believe Wikipedia, that “expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.”  Google “rape culture” if you want to see the impact of the lie.  Many university professorships and leftist women’s groups depend on the lie, and the narrative that women are but a constant victim class in need of saving.

What a colossal failure of feminism.  Wasn’t feminism significantly responsible for the removal of the “in loco parentis” (in place of a parent) status of the university’s administrators?  Weren’t they out marching for co-educational everything?  Now we’re supposed to treat women as if they have no agency, and need the protection of control-freak college administrators and their enablers in the state legislature?

Just as ridiculous as the law itself is the lack of a time limit in it.  While all reasonable people can agree that consent can be withdrawn at any time, we must also agree that it cannot be withdrawn after the fact.  But that is where things currently stand in the world of academia.  Men who are part of a consensual sexual encounter are being disciplined and having their lives ruined because of second guesses or rethinking or regression therapy months later.

While it does appear likely this law will not pass judicial muster, the fact that it was passed in the first place, and with such overwhelming support in the nation’s largest state, amounts to another symbolic shot across the bow in efforts by our president and his leftist cohorts to achieve their ultimate aim – the fundamental transformation of America.

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