The story: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/05/flori...ationship/
What makes me annoyed isn't the fact that this girl is gay and is clearly being targeted for her sexual orientation, but that she could even be arrested in the first place.
Underage sex, or even underage relationships should not be a black and white issue, because they aren't always so simple. Yes, a 50 year old man having a relationship with an underage girl should be cause for both concern and for criminal action. However, when you have teenagers who are separated by only a few years, and the elder of the two becomes a legal adult, he/she should not be treated in the same way as the 50 year old would.
It should be common sense, but these laws aren't based on common sense at all. They are based on arbitrary age limits which should not be applied generally. It pisses me off to no end.
If you want to help out the girl in the article, there is a petition here: http://www.change.org/petitions/indian-r...lationship
However this kind of thing will only end when stupid laws are rewritten to account for what happens in reality.
What makes me annoyed isn't the fact that this girl is gay and is clearly being targeted for her sexual orientation, but that she could even be arrested in the first place.
Underage sex, or even underage relationships should not be a black and white issue, because they aren't always so simple. Yes, a 50 year old man having a relationship with an underage girl should be cause for both concern and for criminal action. However, when you have teenagers who are separated by only a few years, and the elder of the two becomes a legal adult, he/she should not be treated in the same way as the 50 year old would.
It should be common sense, but these laws aren't based on common sense at all. They are based on arbitrary age limits which should not be applied generally. It pisses me off to no end.
If you want to help out the girl in the article, there is a petition here: http://www.change.org/petitions/indian-r...lationship
However this kind of thing will only end when stupid laws are rewritten to account for what happens in reality.
