To be clear, these provisions do not legalize pedophilia. Criminal sexual contact is still a crime. However, it does take us in the direction of legitimizing, condoning, and normalizing pedophilia. And that is a dangerous path to go down.
Ask yourself this question: how would you feel if you had young children, and a pedophile wanted to move into the duplex next door? What if one wanted to apply to work at your child’s daycare or school? These are sincere questions that families should not have to grapple with.
Protecting children should be our first and foremost concern, not protecting the feelings of pedophiles.
There are a number of other dangerous items in the bill that you should be aware of as well:
- Changes to landlord-tenant law and rental eviction record expungement, including limitations against crime-free lease terms. This makes it harder for landlords to provide a safe place to live.
- Legislative approval of the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission’s five-year felony probation cap, plus retroactive application to any sentence already in place in Minnesota
- It puts the crime of carjacking into statute, but does not add any new penalty. A useless change.
- It reduces sentences for juveniles charged as adults
- It reduces prison time from 2/3 of an offender’s sentence to only half, which would make 92% of our prison population eligible for early release
- Significant new spending for nonprofit services, the vast majority of it has very little accountability
The Democrat approach takes us in exactly the opposite direction that Minnesotans expect. Instead of releasing criminals, we should be cracking down on crime, strengthening police, and holding judges and prosecutors accountable.
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