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California reduces penalties for knowingly infecting someone with HIV

Updated: October 10, 2017 at 7:30 pm EST  See Comments

California Governor Jerry Brown

October 10, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law a bill — authored by two openly homosexual legislators — that reduces the crime of a person knowingly infecting another person with HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor.

The bill, SB 239, also removes the felony classification for intentionally donating AIDS-infected blood and makes it a misdemeanor.

Penalties are reduced from a maximum of eight years in a state prison for being convicted of knowingly infecting someone with HIV to “imprisonment in a county jail for not more than six months” under the new law.

The bill was co-sponsored by Sen. Scott Weiner, D-San Francisco, and Assemblyman Todd Gloria, both open homosexuals. Wiener is a far-left LGBT militant who harshly attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ new pro-religious liberty guidance, saying in an Oct. 6 statement: “We will beat back this bigotry, and any other bigotry that comes spewing out of this White House.”

Anderson: Bill undercuts ‘accountability’

Republican Senator Joel Anderson spoke against SB 239 when it was debated on the Senate floor and passed easily along party lines in late May.

“If you intentionally transmit HIV

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