By Laurel Duggan
Democratic Minnesota state representatives introduced legislation that could end the exclusion of pedophilia from legal protections of sexual orientation in state law.
The state’s existing anti-discrimination law excludes sexual attraction to children from legally protected sexual orientations, but HF 1655 would remove that exclusion. The bill describes itself as “removing certain sections in the human rights act that allow for discrimination based on sexual orientation.”
The phrase “‘sexual orientation’ does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult” would be struck from the legal definition of sexual orientation if the bill passes. Sexual orientation is a protected legal class in Minnesota in areas of employment, housing, public accommodations, public service, educational institutions, credit and business discrimination.
The legislation also creates a legal definition for gender identity and specifies that gender identity may not match one’s biological sex and may not be visible to others.
So much cruelty. For what? For a one minute floor debate on a 2 line amendment that received a unanimous vote. Literally. No. Controversy. Folks could have listened, but they didn’t want to. They instead used the opportunity to amplify the hatred of trans people.
— Leigh Finke (@leighfinke) April 27, 2023
Leigh Finke, who is listed first among the bill’s authors, is transgender and frequently speaks out against legal restrictions on child sex changes. Finke did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment, but did make a statement on Twitter in response to blowback against the bill.
“The past 36 hours in this job have been the most difficult so far. I’ve been confronted, called the worst things possible, threatened with murder. The volume has been greater than at any point. All for a lie told about a small bill that changes nothing about sexual orientation,” Finke wrote. “So much cruelty. For what? For a one minute floor debate on a 2 line amendment that received a unanimous vote. Literally. No. Controversy. Folks could have listened, but they didn’t want to. They instead used the opportunity to amplify the hatred of trans people.”
Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities for this original content, email licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.
They are destroying the lives of our children and thus the future. Facts are not seen as true unless they make the insane FEEL sane without changing the factors of the insanity. This is a political tool and causes the society to accept insanity into itself as a normalized behavior. People with gender dysphoria of identity and attraction have a problem which stems from broad-spectrum autism which is not defined as such, but instead is given legitimacy as a lifestyle which causes a degenerative effect in the family unit and oozed into the larger fabric of social degeneracy which started with the sexual revolution. We are a sick nation.
The Minnesota State House is a coven
This is sick. First ok to murder children right before birth, now making it acceptable to raping our children. Start protecting our children! I am thinking all democrats are disfunctional and we are all paying the price. Either that or the anti Christ is here and running ramped in politics.
The antichrist is here and running rampant through the government. We are being stripped of all our rights and freedoms. Our children were kept out of school so that a generation would be uneducated. That way the democrats can easily be brainwashed into not thinking for themselves. This way they will be easily controlled (indoctrinated).
What the hell is going on?? Why would pedophiles ever be protected? I say F*** NO
If that happens in Minnesota, I am moving, leaving.
We are too compliant with our rights being stripped away. Our children have become a commodity to these sick, corrupt abhorrent people in positions of power. The focus is always a distraction on something or someone else to sneak by their agendas. I for one do NOT want any transgender or known pedo in office. You don’t belong in sports, women’s locker rooms ortheir bathroom.I want FULL transparency on what is happening in and around the United States. And I want to know that my rights and the rights of my children and children’s children are being protected. Whatever happened to a government for the people by the people?
Surprised it wasn’t another VT first. The world is run by pedophiles as witnessed by the UN’s new push to normalize it and the burying of Epstein Island visitor Client list. It’s just more of the war on children by the leftist fascist. Hell our illegitimate president is one…and the biggest contributor to child smuggling/exploitation on the southern border.