tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044318176622758692.post5684116515934150828..comments2024-03-01T03:51:38.081-05:00Comments on Allergic to Bull: Connecticut Supreme Court Holds That a Woman With Cerebral Palsy Can Consent to Sex; Think Progress Screeches in HorrorA.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10876021589516844048noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044318176622758692.post-41043475134553386402012-10-20T17:29:14.414-04:002012-10-20T17:29:14.414-04:00Excellent comment. Thanks for speaking my own min...Excellent comment. Thanks for speaking my own mind so eloquently.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044318176622758692.post-18821375546180134462012-10-10T12:54:49.800-04:002012-10-10T12:54:49.800-04:00Popehat had a good article on this case today.
...Popehat had a good article on this case today. <br /><br />I think that the liberal stance on this is understandable (at least to me). Frankly, the Lawyer TV show understanding most people have of law battles is simply not enough to understand what is happening here, and most of the people you are referring to our misinformed and misunderstanding the issues at hand. Frankly, if I hadn't seen the articles here and at Popehat I would be outraged, too. This is just one of those things that appears simple on the face but really needs a lawyer to explain.<br /><br />Popehat's comment that "I'm more afraid of the state's ability to make it up as they go along in a criminal case than I am of criminals going free" is the stance I'm ultimately subscribing to. The prosecutors that bungled this case should be updating their resume's at this point IMHO, but at the end of the day I think that it was ultimately right that this guilty party got off rather than violating due process, as sickening and unfair to the victim as this was. Slippery slope and all of that.<br /><br />On the other issue, regarding her right to consent to have sex, I agree with you. I think it would be inhumane for the government to meddle in such fundamental rights/abilities. She has already had a tragic life, and to take away her right to legally consent to sex, whether or not she ever does or not, just isn't right IMHO. That said, defining a line where a person just isn't able to consent to sex is not an easy thing to do in a generic law, however specific you try to make it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044318176622758692.post-77262260713230721492012-10-10T03:09:50.747-04:002012-10-10T03:09:50.747-04:00I'd lean toward no sex for the severely mental...I'd lean toward no sex for the severely mentally handicapped, though I would not consider someone who believed he had consent from the person in question a sex offender. It would probably be a case handled outside the justice system - with the offending person being told about the situation. <br /><br />Also, the cutoff would not be as strict as the age cutoff. The legal guardian would also be involved.OmegaPaladinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16031663925500964350noreply@blogger.com