Consent, "Family values", and a town called Pampa

A woman in Northern Texas has, allegedly, sexually assaulted a student. This student though, is 18, a year OVER the age of consent. There is a law in the State of Texas that prohibits any form of sexual contact between a student and a teacher, rightfully so, to protect them from being groped to get passing grades.

So the question I pose, when is consent consent? Even the sponsor of the bill, Helen Giddings (D) of Dallas (my god, those evil democrats are protecting our children. Whatever will we do?) said she wanted to protect CHILDREN with the bill, and not have it apply to two consenting adults.

Enter Satan, from Pampa!

Alas, all the articles I have yet to find have a little tidbit from my favorite representative, Warren Jizzum, Oh, I meant Chisum. Chisum brought us such jewels as the gay marriage ban,
HB 382, which sought to ban the state from placing foster or adoptive children with gays or lesbians, and plethora of other bullshit laws that he thinks will make Texas a happy place for the righteous people in his little district. He espouses "family values" but the fruits of his labors are only the excising of any language that would create protected classes, by marking out women, gays and lesbians, or minorities, from giant chunks of human rights legislation. Yes, let's make the world safe for the righteous everywhere. Remember though, the righteous during the time of Jesus were wrong too.

Why is the government, on both the state and national levels, so concerned what a man or woman does with their own bodies (he was the one who brought up the anti-sodomy laws at a time when no one could give a rat's ass)? If people like this are OH so worried about family values, why don't they start helping families instead of leading crusades on abstract rhetorical issues? The deterioration of the institution of marriage and society is not something you can squarely blame on a single group of people. If you want to help families, provide more education. Make pre-marriage counseling mandatory so people like me and my fiance can't just buy a certificate and then have it signed three days later without a problem. But things like these don't concern him.

I can envision Chisum's dream, a Lottery-like setting in Pampa where children participate in the stoning of homosexuals and promiscuous folks to ensure god blesses the town for one more year.