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Showing Original Post only (View all)Fox News guest: Seducing 14-year-olds may not have been that unusual 40 years ago [View all]
And in a parallel universe, Republicans are defending Moore by arguing that it was once okay for older men to go after 14 year old girls. I know some Democrats on this Board argue that Democrats should be just as rabid and partisan in defending their own, but I am not so sure I want to go down that road.
https://www.salon.com/2017/12/07/fox-news-guest-seducing-14-year-olds-may-not-have-been-that-unusual-40-years-ago/
On Wednesday night's Fox News broadcast of "Your World With Neil Cavuto," guest and CEO of the conservative advocacy group Independent Women's Voice, Heather Higgins, posited that, hey, maybe making sexual advances to a 14-year-old in the late 1970s wasn't all that out of the mainstream.
Speaking about the allegations against Republication Alabama senatorial candidate Roy Moore who, among other things, has been accused of initiating sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl in 1979, Higgins was asked by host Cavuto about the statute of limitations concerning statutory rape.
"You would think that that has expired for something that was 40 years ago," she said, "and I suspect that thats part of why if you look at the polling in Alabama, a lot of the Alabamians dont believe it."
She continued. "[Moore's] been in public life for a very, very long time. Dating somebody who was much younger may be something that we find repugnant, but 40 years ago in Alabama it may not have been that unusual."
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Fox News guest: Seducing 14-year-olds may not have been that unusual 40 years ago [View all]
TomCADem
Dec 2017
OP
Calling those you seduced liars years later for political gain IS a major character flaw
Freethinker65
Dec 2017
#7
It is not rare today - a good percentage of early teen pregnancies involve men in 20s and 30s
FarCenter
Dec 2017
#23
Sick. Sick that Pedo Roy did it, sick that they are thing to normalize it
The Genealogist
Dec 2017
#28