mdklatt
2/9/2006, 05:45 PM
http://www.slate.com/id/2135821/
Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline reinterpreted his state law to require all health-care workers, doctors, counselors, social workers, and others to report every single instance of intimate contact between consenting teens under 16, on the theory that each such incident constitutes a rape, regardless of the parties' mutual consent.
According to Kline's trial testimony last week: Illegal sexual activity is conduct "which is so clearly offensive as to shock the moral conscience of a reasonable person." He further refined this answer to explain that it's thus a crime for a 15-year-old boy to perform oral sex on a 15-year-old girl, but it's only a crime for a 15-year-old girl engaging in oral sex on a 15-year-old boy "if there's penetration." When questioned as to what such penetration might involve, Kline responded, "I'm not certain."
So hummers are fine (barring "penetration"?), but a visit from Col. Angus is a crime. Just how ****ed up is Kansas anyway?
Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline reinterpreted his state law to require all health-care workers, doctors, counselors, social workers, and others to report every single instance of intimate contact between consenting teens under 16, on the theory that each such incident constitutes a rape, regardless of the parties' mutual consent.
According to Kline's trial testimony last week: Illegal sexual activity is conduct "which is so clearly offensive as to shock the moral conscience of a reasonable person." He further refined this answer to explain that it's thus a crime for a 15-year-old boy to perform oral sex on a 15-year-old girl, but it's only a crime for a 15-year-old girl engaging in oral sex on a 15-year-old boy "if there's penetration." When questioned as to what such penetration might involve, Kline responded, "I'm not certain."
So hummers are fine (barring "penetration"?), but a visit from Col. Angus is a crime. Just how ****ed up is Kansas anyway?