[Vision2020] US Government booted out of your bedroom

[Ted Moffett]

All:

Sodomy laws can also apply to heterosexual conduct.  After just looking up 
"sodomy," it did not even mention gay or heterosexual distinctions in the 
definition.  In fact, sodomy laws in Idaho refer, or did refer, to both 
heterosexual and gay sex, and include conduct that heterosexuals commonly 
engage in.  The same sexual acts that can land a gay in jail can also land a 
heterosexual in jail in Idaho, or rather they once could.  Info on this is 
at this link:

http://www.yffn.org/spi/sodomy.html

Of course heterosexuals in Idaho did not need to worry as much about these 
laws being enforced against them, but still, a zealous police department and 
prosecutor could use the law to harass someone.

This is just like the ridiculous topless female law we have in Moscow.  
People said the police would not go around trying to zealously enforce the 
ordinance, but then why have bad law on the books at all?

Ted


>From: Bill London <london@moscow.com>
>Reply-To: london@moscow.com
>To: Vision2020 <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] US Government booted out of your bedroom
>Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:29:52 -0700
>
>Noting Dan's posting (below), especially the phrase "I've never been
>worried about the Feds busting down my bedroom door".....
>Yeah.  I don't really worry about that either.   Maybe that's because
>what happens there is not only consensual, but hetero. (and boring).
>Now, what if you were gay.  Your perspective would change immediately on
>that issue, I would think.  You would be very concerned with not only
>your rights, but the legal limitations put on police.
>I do not think being gay should be a crime, and consensual gay sex
>should also not be illegal.  And I think that needs to be clear and
>obvious.  So I am glad the recent decision makes that decision.  That is
>not a waste of time or money.
>BL
>
>
> > The Supreme Court spending time ruling on this decision is more
> > wasteful of my tax dollars than any sodomy laws on the books that
> > nobody enforced anyway. At least I've never been worried about the
> > Feds busting down my bedroom door to catch me in a salacious act.
> > >
> > >DC
> >

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