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Morality, alas, cannot be legislated, no matter how much various groups protest otherwise. Things can go underground [like drugs] or openly above ground [like abortion] by legislation but morality can't change from the outside.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.Luke 6:45
The question for us parents is, what are we storing in our children with our day-to-day living [since monkey see, monkey do]
Yes, exactly. I'm thinking of posting an argument that if we ARE trying to legislate morality, then ex post facto laws are just fine. After all, if it is wrong after legislation, then it was wrong before the legislation too.
The issue is not that the young man was of age to give consent, but that the teacher is in a position of power over him, and therefore could abuse that power through a sexual relationship. Relationships of this kind are forbidden at all levels of the education system, through state law and school behavioral code. The school should not be forced to spend extra time and resources looking over the shoulder of the teachers who decide to engage in sex with their students to ensure there is no doctoring of grades or threatening failure. I'm sorry, but almost none of us, male or female, are emotionally mature at that age. Obviously, the women in these scenarios have maturity or other psychological issues as well. People are irrational enough in relationships without the added gross power exchange and immaturity involved in these cases.
The issue of the teacher being in a position of power over her student is a valid one - it is one that has to be guarded against in many areas of society. I completely agree with you there.
However,
Why should a high school teacher who has relations with her 18 year old student be faced with twenty years in prison when a COLLEGE professor who has relations with HER 18 year old student will face AT MOST the loss of her job?
More specifically, why is one considered a felony when the other is not? And don't try to tell me that 18 year old college students are more mature than 18 year old high school students - I've BEEN to college and KNOW better!
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