Steven Greenhut on California Democrats’ Plan to Get in Your Bed

Democrats
routinely accuse Republicans of wanting to put the government into
the bedroom whenever they support limits on gay rights. So it’s odd
that California’s Democratic leaders are advancing a
bill that would literally insert the state into the most
intimate bedroom moments, writes Steven Greenhut. S.B.
967 would require all California colleges and universities
that accept state financial aid to adopt sexual-behavior policies
that include a standard by which students must provide their
“affirmative consent” before engaging in a wide range of sexual
activity. And a simple “yes” might not suffice. As a senate
analysis explains, the bill “requires consent to be ongoing
throughout a sexual activity and authorizes a participant, at any
time, to communicate that he/she no longer consents to continuing
the sexual activity.”

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