I'm guessing some people are conflating efforts within prisons to isolate molesters as having granted them 'protected class' and not something that meets the groups put forward in the civil rights act or any other legal statute.I would like to meet the politician that has the balls to vote for a law protecting pedofiles.
I also wonder how adding any enhancement to the prison sentence of a person, who might already be doing life or another impossibly long sentence, would act as any kind of deterrent anyway.