Quote:Yes, technically the older girl broke the law, but the law was there to protect younger people from abuse, which is clearly not what the older girl was doing. Instead of protecting a 15 year old from an abusive partner, the system is wasting money prosecuting one half of what was apparently a good relationship with no ill intent.
I agree with you....but I have no confidence in local redneck justice. What if one of the participants was black? That could be a hanging offense in Florida!
Quote: It doesn't paint them in a good light though.
Precisely. It is not as if they would not have had recourse through the family court system prior to the older ones 18th birthday.
Quote:but I still don't think that's a good enough reason not to fix a badly written law. Judges come and go, judicial decisions can be overridden by appeals, etc.
But consider what sort of jesus-freak morons in the Florida legislature would be doing the "fixing." That's what I mean by dangerous. In this case, an Appellate Court might be the best bet to vacate a conviction.
Quote:I have no problems with age being part of the process, but relationships are complex and we shouldn't ignore other factors that play an important role.
Good luck with that!
Quote:Since the passage of the Florida Amendment 2 in November 2008 by a vote of 61.9% in favor and 38.1% opposed, both same-sex marriage and civil union have been banned by Florida's state constitution.
Amendment 2 added Article I Section 27 of the Florida constitution, which says:[7]
Inasmuch as marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized."
Florida doesn't do "modern" very well.
