Here’s a real winner from Minnesota. State party Democrats are trying to convince Legislator Kerry Gauthier not to run for re-election in his reliably Democrat district. Gauthier, 56, had consensual oral sex with a 17 year old boy at a rest stop in Duluth back in July. (The age of consent for such matter appears to be 16 in Minnesota.) Gauthier, also a Democrat, has caught local party leadership with their pants down–they want him to drop out of his race as soon as possible.
Their point seems to be that this is inappropriate conduct for two males above the age of consent, and that it is a distraction. But I though the Democrat Party line was that consensual sex between any two consenting “adults” was a right (and their own damn business)…no matter what kind of sex it was? So what the hell just happened?