Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

I was stunned, literally stunned, to read this article from the Toledo Blade. Among the other very disturbing things written there, is this:

A recently enacted law allows county prosecutors, the state attorney general, or, as a last resort, alleged victims to ask judges to civilly declare someone to be a sex offender even when there has been no criminal verdict or successful lawsuit.

That’s right… alleged victims can convince a judge to declare other citizens sex offenders, apparently without any evidence or the due process of law to examine said evidence. Do you not like the gay people that just moved in down the street? No problem, accuse them of molesting your child, and when the lack of evidence fails to get them convicted of a crime, you and your lawyer can talk a judge into enrolling them as sex offenders anyway. That’ll really fuck up those nasty gay people for life (or at least 6 miserable years). After all, the state constitution (via referendum) has already declared gay people as something less than citizens with full rights. Who cares if they’re (mis)treated like violent or mentally disturbed criminals?

Terrifying.