High court hears Texas sodomy case.
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/03/26/scotus.sodomy.ap/index.html
>"The state has an interest in protecting marriage and family and promoting the birth of children, Rosenthal replied. "Texas can set bright line moral standards for its people.""<
>""We're now dealing with a very small handful of statutes in a circumstance where the country, whatever its attitudes toward discrimination based on sexual orientation, (has reached) a broad consensus that what happens in the privacy of the bedroom between consenting adults is simply none of the state's business.""<
>"Of the 13 states with sodomy laws, four -- Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri -- prohibit "deviate sexual intercourse," or oral and anal sex, between same-sex couples. The other nine ban consensual sodomy for everyone: Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia."<
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In texas, it's legal to have sex with an animal, but not a human being of the same gender.
These sodomy laws are nothing more than a springboard for bigotry and discrimination. That's how the current case came to be: A vindictive and bigot neighbor of the men called police to say there was a crazed man in the apartment, police enter to catch them having sex and charge them.
Yeah, it's fine and dandy a Catholic Priest can escape criminal justice for sexually abusing a child, but two grown men aren't allowed to love each other. Yeah, the religious right has more than a few screws loose.