It’s hatred of child abuse and sexual abuse.
The laws concerning abuse must be enforced to protect the abused. No ifs, ands, or buts.
The laws concerning age of consent and marriage must be enforced when girls such as Jeff’s 16 year old daughter are brought to the attention of authorities. Otherwise, we have no marriage laws in Texas, and will lose the right to know when our daughters seek birth control or have an abortion.
I pushed for the standardization of our age of consent laws so that abortion clinics couldn’t claim the confusion over which abortions to report and whether girls needed parental notification — now consent.
I also lobbied for our Defense of Marriage Act becoming a State Constitutional amendment after the high-handed way so many judges and local officials in other States broke the law concerning marriage and we had a same sex couple try to get their Vermont civil union dissolved - and property settlements - in Texas courts. That amendment passed with 72% of the vote.
I rarely find those such as me fighting the injustices found in many CPS laws want any less in protecting our children.
However, what we want is a level playing field that does not take away our parental rights just because some CPS worker says so.
As a local advertisement says, “you just had to be there to understand” the injustice involved.