Colorado Republican Doesn't Want Kids to Know About Consent
Colorado’s Democratic-held legislature is poised to pass a law requiring that sex education in public and charter schools include instruction on what consent means in sexual relationships, while barring schools from using abstinence-only curriculum.
Colorado would become the ninth state, along with Washington D.C., to require that sex ed cover consent, a subject that’s importance was spotlighted last year at the Colorado capitol, where a Democrat was expelled and a Republican resigned after investigations into sexual harassment and assault allegations. The proposed law defines consent as “the affirmative, unambiguous, voluntary, continuous, knowing agreement between all participants in each physical act within the course of a sexual encounter or interpersonal relationship.”
Republicans and conservative organizations have mounted a long shot political fight against the sex ed bill, taking issue with the inclusion of consent. State Rep. Perry Buck (R-Greeley) took to the floor of Colorado’s state house in February, denouncing the bill and the concept of consent.
“You cannot do a one-size-fits-all,” Buck said. “My district, the unincorporated, God bless them all, don’t want to be told what they think is consent, what they think is their curriculum, everybody has different degrees.”
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