ASHE SCHOW writes in The Washington Examiner:

The California state senate just passed S.B. 695, which adds affirmative consent instruction to high school health courses. The bill passed by a vote of 39-0 and had bipartisan support.

“As it stands, we are not doing nearly enough. We can and must educate the youth of our state, especially our young men, about affirmative consent and healthy relationships,” [State Senator Kevin] de Leon said in a press release about the new bill. “This bill represents the next step in the fight to change behavior toward young women.”

This is an example of using the law to change human behavior: “Have sex this way or be labeled a rapist.”

The bill now heads to the state assembly. Given that “yes means yes” passed through the legislature and was signed by the governor, I have no doubt that California students will soon be taught how to have government-approved sex.

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Paul C. writes:

This is something Orwell warned against in 1984. The main character’s love interest pretended to be against sex in accordance with Big Brother’s ideas.  Big Brother, in other words, controlled sexual relations, as California is trying to do.  It is a religious sphere, according to Roman Catholics, and cannot be regulated as attempted by the state under the First Amendment.

Perfesser Plum writes:

I take comfort in these words.

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…” T. Jefferson

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”  A. Solzhenitsyn

But it would be more comforting to know that fellow citizens are prepared to act.

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