Sex offender registration reform effort prompts death threats
An effort by state Sen. Scott Wiener to reform sex offender registration laws and ensure equality for the LGBTQ community has drawn harassment from conspiracy theorists.
Wiener, who represents San Francisco, said at a news conference Thursday that the QAnon community has claimed the bill, Senate Bill 145, would protect pedophiles, and even accused him of being a pedophile himself.
The bill was introduced by Wiener last year to end what he and other advocates said was a blatant discrimination against LGBTQ youth regarding California’s sex offender registry. It has passed the Senate and is currently making its way through the Assembly.
Under existing law, if a teenager aged between 14 and 17 voluntarily has vaginal intercourse with a partner within 10 years of the person’s age, the judge decides whether the offender who violated statutory rape laws is required to register as sex offenders, based on the facts of the case. On the other hand, current law mandates sex offender registration without the judge’s discretion in the cases involving oral, anal and digital intercourse.
“It makes no sense. It disproportionately impacts LGBTQ people because LGBTQ people are far less likely to be engaging in penile, vaginal intercourse,” Wiener said.
But an onslaught of hateful comments and messages on social media began to surface earlier this month. People have lobbed anti-semitic and homophobic remarks, and Wiener said he received death threats as recently as Wednesday.
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I understand that FAC likes FACTS. Well, facts don’t care about your feelings because they are FACTS, not fabrications. So I stated a FACT and FAC didn’t post it. FAC must be leaning far left, eh? Here’s the FACT, FAC; Wiener is a GAY politician who is only for the welfare of other GAY people. That’s why he’s not concerned with HETEROSEXUAL sex offenses. Does this hurt someone’s feelings? Too bad. Our feelings are hurt every day with these ridiculous SO laws. So brave up and post my comment. Thank you. Freedom of speech is STILL a thing in the United States.
I will post your comment so your don’t feel your freedom of speech is being infringed.
Apparently you must have felt my comment wasn’t LGBT friendly in the first place that I had to stand up for myself against this politically correct insanity. The man is gay and doesn’t want gay people going to prison for having sex with minors but doesn’t care about heterosexual relationships with minors. Nothing in what I said was “hate speech” and nothing I said was not “politically correct”. It’s just facts.
@Maestro,
I respect your viewpoints more times then not. In this point I must disagree with you. I’ll even play the asshole here.
While you have the right to say what you choose, that does not require FAC to post it.
This isn’t meant to start a flame war btw.
I know this is off topic perhaps F.a,C make an off topic thread,, Does anyone hold a job in Warehouses? If so, What companies hire Register citizens?
MD: mom can’t see vehicles, tattoos on registry, files complaint:
http://wjla.com/features/7-on-your-side/maryland-mom-discovers-vital-info-vanishes-from-sex-offender-registry
*vehicles, tattoos, or work addresses
I saw this as well.
I mean, “people” living in America are just morons. What can you say? Just awful, hateful, trite, self-entitled, self-righteous idiots. It’s why we have Registries. It is why COVID is raging out of control in this moron country.
Way too many idiots with way too much free time and not enough real problems. “People” like this “mom” need to be named and shamed.
I personally wish Weiner would address discrimination against all registrants, rather than only the homosexual ones.
Every IP address that made bad comments or threats should be tagged and a knock on their door from FBI agents. Then THEY can have a criminal record and taste their own medicine.
Hard evidence and truth will always be muddied by the lies and conjectures of brainwashed conspiracists. We can’t have a single scientific advancement without someone denying its existence…while typing their rants on computers, smartphones, and tablets.