I while back I wrote about how the Democrats in Minnesota, led by Representative Leigh Finke, were stripping language that prevented pedophiles from being recognized as a protected class under Minnesota’s Human Rights laws.

The public reaction was swift and devastating. I take a bit of credit for that as I was the first to write about it.

The Democrats were forced to amend their bill and did so unanimously, reclassifying pedophilia as specifically not a protected sexual orientation. It was a tremendous victory.

It was also temporary. The Minnesota Senate included the original language put forth by Finke, fully rejecting the House’s unanimous decision to maintain the state’s rejection of pedophilia (or in modern parlance, “minor attraction”), and is once again allowing minor-attracted people to get protection as a protected class. based on their sexual orientation.

Context: the bill does remove an exclusion of pedophilia from consideration as a protected sexual orientation. It does so after the House unanimously affirmed that exclusion on a 126-0 vote.

There is no innocent benign explanation for this development. https://t.co/JB9IazXxhl

— Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) May 12, 2023

As I noted before, and will repeat here, the language does not legalize pedophilia. If you practice pedophilia and are caught, you can still be prosecuted.

However, if you are discriminated against due to your avowed attraction to minors–for instance if your landlord sees that you have a sex doll representing a child–you may have cause to sue. Similarly, a restaurant that threw you out for wearing a t-shirt expressing your love of having sex with children, the restaurant could not throw you out in the way they could eject a Nazi or homophobe.

The law does not SAY pedophiles are a protected class, but pedophilia is classified as a “paraphilia” and hence a sexual orientation. Human Rights law makes sexual orientation a protected category.

That’s a long way of saying that pedophiles become a protected class, because, well, they do. That is why the original language exists in the law, to ensure that people can express their disgust with pedophilia without facing legal consequences.

On the left is the language Democrats want removed from the MN Human Rights Act.

On the right is the amendment they unanimously supported on the House floor but then removed during conference committee.

It is now a "dangerous lie" and "misinformation" to point this out. pic.twitter.com/pF8zg50OWY

— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) May 12, 2023

The changes to the law are not benign, as the Democrats claim. If they did what Democrats claim then they wouldn’t need to change the law. Their bizarre claim that they must, despite universal opposition as expressed by a unanimous vote in the House of Representatives, remove language banning pedophilia as protected by Human Rights Law, is ridiculous. If there would be no change in the law, they need not change the law. They insist they must remove “outdated” language.

Never. Any. Specifics. https://t.co/hJtsN1zFed

— Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) May 13, 2023

Democrats consider biological sex outdated. They consider opposition to child drag shows–drags show not just FOR children, but BY children for adults–to be outdated. And, it has been made very clear by a number of psychiatrists and academics, they consider sanctions against people for horrendous sexual attraction to children to be outdated.

House Republicans want to see the Niska amendment restored to the bill.

You voted for the Niska amendment.

The House passed it 126-0.

We all agreed, but your party stripped it out.

Facts are hard. #mnleg https://t.co/bxE1qSH5Ml

— MN House Republicans (@mnhousegop) May 13, 2023

They aren’t “pedophiles.” They are “Minor Attracted People.”

This is exactly what the left does. They make a move. They get pushback. They lie and say they aren’t doing it. Then they do it again.

Think gas stoves.

This is how it always works. A year or two ago we were told gender surgeries on minors were a myth. Now they are a medical necessity, you bigot.

It is always thus.