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La legislature decides to keep unconstitutional crimes against nature law
Posted on 4/15/14 at 8:35 pm
Posted on 4/15/14 at 8:35 pm
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It remains illegal to have a girl blow you. You have been warned....
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The Louisiana House overwhelmingly rejected a repeal of the state’s unconstitutional anti-sodomy law Tuesday.
Rep. Patricia Smith, D-Baton Rouge, sought to remove consensual sex between people of the same sex from Louisiana’s crimes against nature law. The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a similar Texas law a decade ago in Lawrence v. Texas.
Smith brought the bill after Baton Rouge-area police arrested gay men using the law but couldn’t charge them because the district attorney said the law was unenforceable.
She said the bill would help police officers do their jobs more efficiently by getting rid of an unusable law.
“The bill only removes unconstitutional language,” she said.
But Smith couldn’t win the backing of the House, which voted 66-27 against her repeal proposal. The bill was opposed by religious and conservative organizations.
Rep. Valarie Hodges, R-Denham Springs, objected to the measure, saying the law protects children and upholds morality.
“It’s a vote of conscience,” she said.
Opponents of Smith’s proposal have argued that the repeal would remove minors’ protection from aggravated crimes against nature. Smith disagreed, saying at least 12 other statutes protect minors from sexual assault.
Smith also said opponents gave false information to lawmakers about the repeal leading to more cases of HIV. Opponents made that argument at the bill’s committee hearing last week.
“That is also not true,” Smith said.
Hodges said the state should maintain the law despite what the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.
“We’re not here to rubber-stamp the Supreme Court,” she said.
Hodges was the only one who spoke against the bill on the House floor.
Reps. Ted James, D-Baton Rouge, and Terry Landry, D-New Iberia, both supported the bill. Landry asked Smith if the U.S. Supreme Court has authority over all states, and James asked Smith if the bill has support from local law enforcement. Smith said yes to both.
However, Equality Louisiana, a gay rights organization that supported Smith’s measure, has expressed disappointment in the Louisiana Sheriff’s Association because it did not push for passage of the bill after previously indicating it supported the repeal.
It remains illegal to have a girl blow you. You have been warned....
Posted on 4/15/14 at 8:43 pm to Tigerlaff
Your wife can though right?
Assuming she ever would anyway
Assuming she ever would anyway
Posted on 4/15/14 at 8:46 pm to Tigerlaff
The plotting abilities of the Legislature and moronic abilities of the people who elect them never disappoint. But the vote to "uphold morality" will gain supporters and votes come election time. This is the crap that makes us (Libertarians) so agitated with the Republican party. I disagree with Smith on many things, but she is spot on with this bill.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:03 pm to Tigerlaff
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Opponents of Smith’s proposal have argued that the repeal would remove minors’ protection from aggravated crimes against nature. Smith disagreed, saying at least 12 other statutes protect minors from sexual assault.
How does this offer any extra protection? When I read this it would seem that if someone had sodomy with a minor it would be ok, so thank goodness we have this law in place
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:09 pm to Mr.Perfect
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Your wife can though right?
Nope.
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§89. Crime against nature
A. Crime against nature is the unnatural carnal copulation by a human being with another of the same sex or opposite sex or with an animal, except that anal sexual intercourse between two human beings shall not be deemed as a crime against nature when done under any of the circumstances described in R.S. 14:41, 14:42, 14:42.1 or 14:43. Emission is not necessary; and, when committed by a human being with another, the use of the genital organ of one of the offenders of whatever sex is sufficient to constitute the crime.
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Assuming she ever would anyway
Yeah, I hear that stops after marriage anyway. Maybe that's why the vote went as it did.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:13 pm to Tigerlaff
Wait!?!?!? Giving blow jobs is really illegal in LA?
I did not know this.
Forgive me. My degree is in medicine, not law.
I did not know this.
Forgive me. My degree is in medicine, not law.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:16 pm to GRITS79
Anal and oral are both "unnatural copulation."
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:19 pm to Tigerlaff
This state never ceases to amaze me.
I have an excuse now. "Nerp babe, blow jobs are against the law. Do you want me to be a criminal? Do you want me to feel like a criminal?"
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:20 pm to Tigerlaff
quote:That sucks
La legislature decides to keep unconstitutional crimes against nature law
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:22 pm to NC_Tigah
quote:
That sucks
Or it doesn't suck. Kind of depends on your position.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:23 pm to NC_Tigah
Are hand jobs illegal too??
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:24 pm to fleaux
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Are hand jobs illegal too??
They should be.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:26 pm to NC_Tigah
where does it say anything about consensual sex?
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:27 pm to Tigerlaff
quote:
Or it doesn't suck. Kind of depends on your position.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:28 pm to GRITS79
We don't let chicks on the poliboard. Go back to the game thread and consider yourself lucky we allow you talk baseball. TIA
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:29 pm to Tigerlaff
quote:So you're saying it's not a real pain in the arse?
Kind of depends on your position.
This post was edited on 4/15/14 at 9:30 pm
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:45 pm to Tigerlaff
So much ignorance in the Louisiana state legislature
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:57 pm to Tigerlaff
I hate pandering politicians like I hate the University of Alabama football team winning a game. frick their patronizing bull shite born out of ignorance to pander to bible thumpers and social cons.
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