Virginia lawmakers repeal sodomy ban
Source: Washington Post
More than a decade after the Supreme Court declared such bans unconstitutional, Virginia lawmakers have taken a ban on oral and anal sex out of the state code.
The move is mostly symbolic for private consenting adults. But because of the way the code was written, the crimes against nature statute was still being used to prosecute other sex crimes. Former attorney general Ken Cuccinelli II attempted, unsuccessfully, to revive the law under such circumstances last year. The changes passed by the legislature Thursday will include sodomy in code used to prosecute rape, prostitution, sex acts involving children and other uncontested crimes, while limiting crimes against nature to bestiality and incest.
The bill passed the House unanimously Thursday after passing the Senate unanimously last month.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginia-lawmakers-repeal-sodomy-ban/2014/03/06/20e81b82-a55b-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)Now you can get/give a legal blow job in Virginia. Gonna try it, Ken?
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)a few years ago. Passing the time. Nevermind. lol
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)The Lovings in 1966?
11 Bravo
(23,925 posts)have been criminals from day one.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)fancy that
dhill926
(16,309 posts)marble falls
(56,996 posts)FSogol
(45,435 posts)Elections have consequences.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)FSogol
(45,435 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)...having a nice dinner with their friends...
(what...you thought they'd do something ELSE?)
LiberalLovinLug
(14,164 posts)Like the Arizona bill. All these Red State legislatures spending time crafting and enacting bigoted unconstitutional laws only to be predictably overturned later. All the other problems they could be tackling with that time and money. Lord knows the Red States need help with all kinds of social ills.