The Latest Targets of Sexual Radicalism

Article here. The issues brought up aren't new but the particulars vary from what history has seen in times past. Typically attempts to suppress free speech and control others' behavior around sexuality have come from religious or socially conservative parties or institutions. In the current version of it in the context of the Houston mayor and campus feminist rape hysterics, it's self-styled "progressives" seeking to suppress others' rights. No matter who's doing it, it's still wrong. Excerpt:

'Two incidents involving basic constitutional freedoms—not closely associated with one another in the media or by those involved—highlight the growing power of sexual radicalism in our society. Radical sexual ideology in a broad sense has not generally been recognized as a political phenomenon worthy of attention. But we can see in these developments—both of which are eliciting outrage from different defenders of the Bill of Rights—that politicized sexuality transcends particular controversies such as same-sex marriage or abortion. It can be seen as a true political ideology, akin to earlier radicalisms like socialism and nationalism and equally threatening to freedom.

In Houston, the lesbian mayor recently demanded that pastors opposed to the city’s “bathroom bill”—an “anti-discrimination” ordinance that would allow people to choose public washrooms according to “gender identity”—surrender their sermons and other documents to city officials. The subpoenas have been withdrawn following public outrage, but the very idea that government officials should claim the power to examine—and therefore pass judgement upon—expressions of political opinion by any citizens, religious or secular, is disturbing in a free society.
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Throughout American universities andbeyond, we are told that an apparent “epidemic” of rape and various ill-defined forms of “sexual misconduct” justify suspending due process protections for accused students. Yet no statistics support this claim, andreputable journalists and scholars deny it categorically. Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute calls the claim “preposterous.” “There is no such epidemic,” she states flatly. “There is, however, a squalid hook-up scene, the result of jettisoning all normative checks on promiscuous behavior. … There is simply no reason to concede any factual legitimacy to the rape hysterics.” Caroline Kitchens of the American Enterprise Institute has also written that, “The rape ‘epidemic’ doesn’t actually exist.” Kitchens and other scholars show how the much-touted figure claiming “one in five” female students is raped is not only wildly exaggerated but impossible.'