Laura Harris
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ pick as running mate for the 2024 presidential election, supports far-left legislation in his state\u00a0\u2013\u00a0especially on LGBT and related issues<\/a>, including one law that was seemingly supportive of pedophilia among people with certain “sexual orientation.”<\/p>\n In May 2023,\u00a0Walz signed the Judiciary and Public Safety bill<\/a>, which included the Take Pride Act\u00a0\u2013 a bill that amended the definition of “sexual orientation” in Minnesota. The\u00a0original\u00a0version stated that “sexual orientation\u00a0does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult.” But the revised law signed by Walz removed this language, allowing pedophilia to be classified as a sexual orientation.<\/p>\n This revised law, authored by state Rep. Leigh Finke (D-Saint Paul), the first openly transgender member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, defines “sexual orientation” as “to whom someone is, or is perceived as being, emotionally, physically, or sexually attracted to based on sex or gender identity. A person may be attracted to men, women, both, neither or to people who are genderqueer, androgynous, or have other gender identities.” (Related:\u00a0FLASHBACK:\u00a0Tim Walz\u00a0BRIBED parents to give their kids COVID-19 vaccines<\/a>.)<\/p>\n The Take Pride Act also introduced a definition of gender identity, describing it as “a person\u2019s inherent sense of being a man, woman, both or neither” and clarified that this identity “may or may not correspond to their assigned sex at birth or to their primary or secondary sex characteristics” and is “not necessarily visible to others.”<\/p>\n At that time, the\u00a0Minnesota\u00a0Department of Human Rights<\/em>\u00a0defended the changes. The department stated that the bill only removed the “outdated language that wrongly prejudices LGBTQIA+ community members by attempting to tie sexual orientation to criminal acts.”<\/p>\n However, the revision still sparked\u00a0a renewed controversy, wherein critics argue that this could potentially pave the way for pedophiles to receive employment protections.<\/p>\n