Kansas Law on Sodomy Stays on Books Despite a Cull

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Gov. Sam Brownback created the Office of the Repealer to recommend the elimination of out-of-date, unreasonable and burdensome state laws that build up in any bureaucracy over time.

For gay men and lesbians, there seemed one particularly obvious candidate: Kansas Statute 21-3505.

That would be the “criminal sodomy” statute, which prohibits same-sex couples from engaging in oral or anal sex. The law was rendered unenforceable nearly a decade ago by a United States Supreme Court ruling, but it remains enshrined in the state’s legal code.

But on Friday, when Mr. Brownback, a conservative Republican, released a list of 51 laws to recommend to the Legislature for repeal, the sodomy statute was not among them.

full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/21/us/sodomy-law-remains-official-in-kansas.html

that case would be Lawrence v. Texas.

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1. It's more FUN when it's illegal. Ask a Republican. nt