Before Obergefell v Hodges, the Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage, conservatives were wary of it. Not because they didn't want gay people to find love, but because the legal state sponsorship of unorthodox marriage seemed like a slippery slope toward legally recognizing–or just even normalizing–other kinds of unorthodox, but eventually harmful, behaviors. 

It's only been eight years since that  decision, yet the transgender contagion has swept through teenagers across America and Bostock v. Clayton County arrived–the Supreme Court case codifying gender identity into law as a protected class. The slippery slope wasn't just a fallacy, it was an actual descent into progressive ideology via the law.

Of course, conservatives vehemently disagree this should be the case. One would think protecting children would be a bipartisan effort, a place of agreement. In the case of this Minnesota bill, it really doesn't seem like it was until Republicans caught it and changed it.

Death threats are wholly unacceptable but this too is true: Nobody should be able to normalize pedophilia via policy, nor should they be lauded for doing so. I'm glad Minnesota Republicans were able to strip the vital language from this bill and stop it dead in its tracks.