ACLU of Florida Statement on Prosecution of 18-Year-Old Kaitlyn Hunt

[LadyHawkAZ]

85. Weeeeelll, that right there's a multi-layered answer

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Because the law as it stands is unjust, and I am an activist. Changing the unjust is what activists do. Legal adults face felony charges for smoking pot, too. Shouldn't happen.

Because the relationship was between schoolmates within a peer group, and telling a teenager that they must now abandon the people they care about because they have just had the wrong birthday is plain flat-out cruel.

Because I have not spent the past 25 years involved in the battle to ensure that these kids have access to proper sex education, birth control, and abortion if it is needed, and to make it less traumatic for LGBT teenagers to come out, just to turn around and tell them "Slap an aspirin between yer knees, ladies, or we'll ship you/your partner off to jail!" the minute they put those tools into practice. I find that attitude sickening. It puzzles me that you don't.

Because the idea that other people, even if they are parents, want to have the controlling vote in their teen's sex lives creeps me out, in the same way that purity balls do.

Because this law is too easily abused on the whim of an angry, controlling or abusive parent. Exhibit A: Kaitlyn Hunt.

Because if she'd bullied, slapped or punched the other girl fighting over a boy, it would have been a misdemeanor at best and more likely just a suspension from school. And it never would have made the national news.

Do feel free to explain how you find this situation rational in any way.