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Current events: May 5, 2024

Heretic TOC - Hail, an improbable age of consent heroine! - Tom discusses Barbara Hewson's comments in the online magazine Spiked as well as public reaction to those comments. (UK) RSOL demands removal of Vitter amendment from Farm Bill - Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has sponsored a bill that would deny food stamps to people on the sex offender registry. Age of consent should be 13, says barrister - Barbara Hewson told online magazine Spiked that the move was necessary in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal to end the "persecution of old men". (BBC News, UK) Florida teen fighting criminal charges related to same-sex relationship (LGBTQ Nation,USA) - A 18 year old senior has been charged with two felony counts of “lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 – 16 years of age” stemming from her sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl