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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Recently, a rather bizarre topic came up here in California. There was a bill introduced in the California Legislature not to have a felony designation for men who solicit minors 16 and 17 years old for sex. In other words, the interest is in favor of the solicitor, the person who is trying to buy sex from a young person 16 or 17.
Why anybody in the world would consider that’s not a terrible thing and it’s not a felonious act I don’t know. But I do know I live in California and anything’s explicable.
In fact, the people in the Legislature made it a civil rights issue: This is unfair to gay men that they shouldn’t…
