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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 9:20 pm to Tigerlaff
quote:That sucks
La legislature decides to keep unconstitutional crimes against nature law
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.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 10:38 pm to Tigerlaff
From the Nola.com article:
Surprise, surprise.
frick everyone involved with that organization.
quote:
one of the state's most powerful lobbying groups, the conservative Christian Louisiana Family Forum, opposes striking the sodomy ban
Surprise, surprise.
frick everyone involved with that organization.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 10:44 pm to Tigerlaff
I agree with you all that the wording is outdated, but if the law is unenforceable then isn't it already repealed anyway? Wouldn't that make this whole thing just a waste of time and taxpayer money?
ETA: Basically the voters of Louisiana paid this lady to attempt to overturn an unenforceable law...
ETA: Basically the voters of Louisiana paid this lady to attempt to overturn an unenforceable law...
This post was edited on 4/15/14 at 10:46 pm
Posted on 4/15/14 at 11:31 pm to Tigerlaff
Looks like pretty much a vote along party lines.
Thank the R's.
Thank the R's.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 11:37 pm to Tigerlaff
Tony "I am God" Perkins and his bedroom police have this legislature tied around the finger. They want the government in the bedroom. What they really want is theocracy.
They are the creeps pushing the King James Bible as the state book, which is a slap in the face to all non-protestants (as well as anyone who believes in religious freedom).
They are the creeps pushing the King James Bible as the state book, which is a slap in the face to all non-protestants (as well as anyone who believes in religious freedom).
Posted on 4/16/14 at 12:21 am to Tigerlaff
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La legislature decides to keep unconstitutional crimes against nature law
Posted on 4/16/14 at 1:28 am to Tigerlaff
Horrible legislature is horrible.
The only "good" news, I guess, is that this is a symbolic vote. The law is unconstitutional.
Considering how religious LA is, it is actually kinda surprising how most of the social conservative victories have been mostly symbolic.
The only "good" news, I guess, is that this is a symbolic vote. The law is unconstitutional.
Considering how religious LA is, it is actually kinda surprising how most of the social conservative victories have been mostly symbolic.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 7:24 am to Tigerlaff
I guess the wife and I are habitual offenders.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 7:25 am to Tigerlaff
19th Century thread is 19th Century.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 11:31 am to Tigerlaff
Yet another example of the hypocrisy of the "party of smaller government." I have really come to hate both of our major political parties.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 2:07 pm to Tigerlaff
Is anyone really surprised by this?
I mean, Louisiana has a reputation to uphold.
Amirite?
I mean, Louisiana has a reputation to uphold.
Amirite?
Posted on 4/16/14 at 3:54 pm to Tigerlaff
Thanks be to our legislators, protecting our rights and such. (Yeah, friggin right )
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