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RandySF

(57,612 posts)
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 03:26 PM Jun 2022

Senator in 2010 deposition: 13-year-olds can consent to sex

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Before he became a leading voice for conservative causes on Capitol Hill, U.S. Senator James Lankford spent more than a decade as the director of youth programming at the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center, a sprawling campground about 80 miles south of Oklahoma City that attracts more than 50,000 campers in grades six through 12 each year.

The Republican lawmaker’s tenure at the camp is a prominent feature of his political profile, noted in the first paragraph of his official Senate biography. That experience is also coming under renewed scrutiny as the Southern Baptist Convention, which is affiliated with the group that owns the camp, faces a reckoning over its handling of sexual abuse cases.

In 2009, while Lankford worked at the camp, the family of a 13-year-old girl sued a 15-year-old boy who was alleged to have had sex with her at the camp. Lankford, who was not in Congress at the time, is not alleged to have had any direct knowledge of the alleged assault, has not been accused of any wrongdoing and was not a defendant in the lawsuit, which was settled for an undisclosed amount before it was scheduled to go to trial.

But in a 2010 deposition in the case, given a week after he was elected to his first term in the U.S. House, Lankford testified that he believed a 13-year-old could consent to sex.

Yes, I think they can,” Lankford told Kenyatta Bethea, a lawyer for the girl’s family, according a 155-page transcript of the deposition obtained by The Associated Press.




https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-oklahoma-city-7c198e08793337f620e26f2cfcbb7c0f

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Senator in 2010 deposition: 13-year-olds can consent to sex (Original Post) RandySF Jun 2022 OP
I am going to be ill. niyad Jun 2022 #1
going? YoshidaYui Jun 2022 #10
I was referring to my now hourly bout of nausea. niyad Jun 2022 #11
What an insensitive fucking tool Lankford is. nt Ilsa Jun 2022 #2
Then they can consent to an abortion...? Grins Jun 2022 #3
I think a lot of Republican men want what Warren Jeffs had. n/t barbaraann Jun 2022 #4
Bingo. LakeArenal Jun 2022 #5
He is so creepy looking kimbutgar Jun 2022 #6
sure and they can get married at that age too treestar Jun 2022 #7
50,000 d_r Jun 2022 #8
and he has 2 daughters!!! makes you wonder IcyPeas Jun 2022 #9

Grins

(7,128 posts)
3. Then they can consent to an abortion...?
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 03:31 PM
Jun 2022

Nah!!

The bad thing (among many things) about Langford, is there are WORSE Bible thumpers out there.

kimbutgar

(20,871 posts)
6. He is so creepy looking
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 04:28 PM
Jun 2022

Reminds me of the actor who played Dorian Gray in the movie from the 40’s. Creepy looking outside evil inside.

d_r

(6,907 posts)
8. 50,000
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 06:23 PM
Jun 2022

Eta I mean be generous and say 12 weeks of summer, three whole months (that we don't really have after no child left behind). That would be over 4,000 campers a week. Wtf.

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