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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Phil Nisbet</b> <<a href="mailto:pcnisbet1@hotmail.com">pcnisbet1@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">This has got to be one that really does facinate me. It is a day of total<br>facination I guess, hence my extreme over limit on posting.
<br><br><a href="http://www.sodomylaws.org/sensibilities/idaho.htm">www.sodomylaws.org/sensibilities/idaho.htm</a><br><br>You see Tim, we have some very weird wild and whacky laws still on the books<br>and upheld by our courts which make the act of consensual adult male sex a
<br>crime punishable by 5 years to life that also require that any person so<br>convicted be placed on the list of sex offenders and that they can be thrown<br>back into jail for a life term if they refuse to agree never to have
<br>consensual sex with another of their sex for the term of their life.<br><br>So should we immediately enforce this Law Ted? There are a bunch of nasty<br>old scoff laws who have consensual sex with other adults who are guilty as
<br>sin of this on the book law.</blockquote>
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<div>Yes. I'm completely in favor of enforcing the law -- in particular, the Constitution of the United States. It was decided in Lawrence v. Texas that these laws are in fact entirely unenforceable, and should be struck.
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<div>I'd also like to note that, for the record, I believe the statute as most recently applied did not involve consensual male/male sex, but was in fact a plea bargain taken by a man offending against another man.</div>
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<div>-- ACS</div>
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