The RIGHT stuff…Politically InCorrect

A few years ago, Genarlow Wilson was given a 10 year jail sentence for being intimate with his girlfriend two years younger. Now the case has been brought back to the forefront. In the usual Georgian style, things have gone on in this case that make absolutely no sense at all.

Things like why the mother of the 15 year old and the 15 year old were contacted by the state and told to testify in a certain way or have the 15 year old thrown in jail with the 17 year old.
Or how come the state decided to prosecute this one set of teens and not go after all the other minors doing the same thing?
Who had the idea that two consenting teens is equivalent to child molestation?

Most importantly, why are people surprised by this?

If we’re sending off our kids to a school system that teaches them about and how to have intercourse with others, why are we surprised when they try it?

We shouldn’t be. Premarital sex is wrong and it has huge disadvantages after the fact, but we do have to take responsibility. If we aren’t giving our kids a good foundation and taking time to explain why they shouldn’t have relations before they’re married, we shouldn’t expect them to hold that conviction. Especially when the majority of their friends are doing the same thing.

At the same time, it isn’t the government’s role to intervene when it comes to two consenting minors. This is a classic example of the state usurping the parent’s role. The reason is simple, we’ve let the government control too much of our lives and we have grown lazy. If we don’t want the state to keep intervening than we need to stand up and take our responsibilities back.

Most of the people following the case, and even myself have seen this as an obstruction of justice. However, this really boils down to a consequence of avoiding the most important responsibility adults have - to train their children in the way they should go.

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