(Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
by Sarah Wagner
August 8, 2024
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D), now the Democrat Vice President nominee, signed a law last year that changed the definition of “sexual orientation.”
The new definition under the “Take Pride Act” included pedophiles in the state’s Human Rights Act.
The old version of the law explicitly did not include pedophiles as a protected “sexual orientation.”
“‘Sexual orientation’ does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult,” the law previously read.
As of May 2023, Minnesota defined “sexual orientation” as “whom someone is, or is perceived of 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.”
Transgender Rep. Leigh Fink introduced the bill last year. Fink told Fox News that the bill “updates outdated language that incorrectly ties pedophilia to a person’s sexual orientation.”
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