But on the flip side there is a chance that a 14 year old girl could really love and decide to spend her life with an 18 year old man. It is after all a natural thing to do. And when they are both 4 years older they are about the perfect age range apart. Men do fall in love with women and vice versa. That's how we are designed.
A 14 year old boy however being molested by an 18 year old man is an unhealthy and unnatural thing. No child desires homosexual behavior without some outside influence and some underlying mental trauma. A healthy child never even imagines it. The act will destroy the childs life and deny him his proper place as a father and husband.
And every one of us here would strongly suspect she's deluded. If she were engaging in anything other than kissing, we'd all be pretty alarmed about it. When your hormones start kicking in at 14, you don't have enough discernment to even suspect that you are being manipulated as a sexual plaything.
And when they are both 4 years older they are about the perfect age range apart.
Sure, and if the example was an 18 year old young man being smitten with a 22 year old man, we'd be talking about two adults here, and the law wouldn't have a thing to say about it, no matter what each of us thinks individually.
Men do fall in love with women and vice versa.
Is a fourteen year old female a "woman"? To me, she's a girl.
No child desires homosexual behavior without some outside influence and some underlying mental trauma.
Perhaps you'd consider the slutty behavior exhibited by Britney Spears, et al, to be the "outside influence" that motiviates fourteen year old girls to want to sleep with eighteen year old self-styled studs, who find eighteen year old young women too wise for their wiles? Fourteen year olds do not need to be having sex with anyone, especially those who have 25 to 30% more life experience than them.
A healthy child never even imagines it. The act will destroy the childs life and deny him his proper place as a father and husband.
I don't know what causes homosexuality, and I don't even pretend to know what causes homosexual experimentation. There have been millions of young people who have been abused at least once either heterosexually or homosexually, who went on to become heterosexual spouses and parents. Some deal with it on their own, some have a trusted friend or family member who gets them through it, and thank goodness, more of them have professional resources to help them with it.
The "Romeo and Juliet" exceptions belong as part of a bygone era that did not encourage young people to confide in a trustworthy adult when they were being sexually exploited by someone more sophisticated and manipulative. When the exceptions were made, we didn't expect that most girls would go beyond high school, and marrying one's high school sweetheart the month of graduation was normal. Today, most people want their daughters to go on to either higher education, or at least trade school, or establish themselves in some sort of career path. I don't think that any of us want what happened to Romeo and Juliet (mutual suicide) to happen to our kids. In the case of opposite sex relationships, there's the very real chance of pregnancy, which can destroy either the life of an unborn child, or seriously set back these young people's futures.
It's very possible here that the courts might catch this state with some odd discrimination in its laws, and while the one appeals court found in favor of the state's right to make a distinction, it still has to play its way through the rest of the court system, and it's not over until the Supremes have their say. There really are two ways to eliminate the disparity, one is to make homosexual activity legal between a 14 year old and an 18 year old, and the other way, the one I prefer, is to make 16 years of age the cutoff for both activities. Don't we owe that to our kids?