Letter: Education on consent and what constitutes rape is essential
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Activists in Utah gather outside of Salt City Tattoo on Friday, Dec. 22, 2017, to protest following an Instagram post made by the shop s official Instagram account. The post in question was of a gift provided during the shop s white elephant exchange, a gift one of the artists at the parlor called a rape kit, containing leather gloves, black duct tape, a bottle of lubricant, rope, and a knife.
By Angela Hronek | The Public Forum
| Feb. 21, 2021, 1:00 p.m. | Updated: 9:09 p.m.
The Utah House Education Committee messed up.
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HB177 would have brought sexual assault prevention to Utah schools through teaching what does and does not qualify as consent. (Sadie Anderson)
A bill that would have required Utah schools to include consent in their public sex education curriculum was defeated this week in Utah’s House Education Committee.
HB177 was rejected by the education committee in a 7-4 vote. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Carol Spackman Moss, D-Salt Lake and written by BYU Law faculty member Brittney Herman.
The education amendment bill aimed to bring sexual assault prevention to Utah schools. Utah already has laws intact about teaching consent, but the bill sought to clarify those guidelines to include teaching what things do not classify as consent.