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Gay Sex Still Illegal in Kansas
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jan 25, 2012 09:39pm |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Author | Kate Sheppard |
| News Date | Monday, January 23, 2012 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | n Friday, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback released a long list of state statutes that he thinks are outdated and should be tossed out. He even issued an executive order last year to create a new position, the Office of the Repealer, to come up with that list. But his final product did not include the repeal of the state's anti-sodomy law.
Despite the fact that the Supreme Court ruled that anti-sodomy laws were unconstitutional in 2003, Kansas has kept its own law on the books. Kansas Statute 21-3505 lists "criminal sodomy"–that which occurs "between persons who are 16 or more years of age and members of the same sex or between a person and an animal"–as a misdemeanor. Straight sodomy is a-OK. |
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