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The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court has ruled laws that criminalize consensual same-sex sexual relations in the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia are unconstitutional.
Two sections of the country’s criminal code specifically banned “gross indecency” and “buggery,” allowing for up to ten years in prison as punishment. Continue reading “Saint Lucia Court Strikes Down Laws Punishing Same-Sex Relations”
From Yahoo News:
The Louisiana House of Representatives voted not to remove the state’s sodomy ban today, even though it was declared unconstitutional by the U.S Supreme Court in 2003 and cannot be used to arrest people. The 66-27 vote was overwhelmingly against getting rid of the ban.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune explains that a conservative religious lobbying group led the charge to keep the “crime against nature” law — which, again, isn’t even a real law anymore — on the books, sending letters to all members of the House saying the unenforceable law is somehow protecting young people from sexual predators and public health risks.
“Louisiana’s anti-sodomy statute is consistent with the values of Louisiana residents who consider this behavior to be dangerous, unhealthy and immoral,” the letter said, apparently not mentioning that the statute is not consistent with the Constitution and that the East Baton Rogue sheriff’s department was forced to apologize for trying to use it to arrest gay men last year.
It is currently legal in Louisiana to have intercourse with a corpse.
However, receive a blowjob from a consenting adult? Technically a felony and punishable by five years in prison.
LGBT author/activist Dan Savage thinks there are some questions to be posed…
The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal of a lower court ruling striking down Virginia’s anti-sodomy law.
The high court on Monday refused to hear from Virginia state officials who wanted to get the state’s ban on oral and anal sex reinstated.
In March, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond declared Virginia’s law unconstitutional.
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, currently running behind in polls in his quest to become governor, sought to have the law reinstated.