🚀 go-pugleaf

Clay Colwell wrote:
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> In soc.motss F.M. Benton <fmbenton@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > Frank Provasek wrote:
> >>
> >> Clay Colwell wrote:
> >>
> >> > Feel free to report me to the police as being a homosexual.
> >> > I'll be awaiting their knock on my door <giggle snort guffaw>.
> >> > (IOW, it ain't happening.)
> >>
> >> Two men were recently arrested and charged with homosexual
> >> sodomy in Houston. They were adult men in a private home.
> >> The case is currently working through the courts.
> 
> > Thats bullshit!! Those laws are not enforced.
> 

Didn't we go through this more than ten years ago?

The Hardwick case was "The laws are never enforced.  
People are arrested for violating the laws, but the
charges are always dropped.  If they're never enforced,
then why are they on the books?  They are used only
to intimidate queers into staying in the closet."

The Supreme Court's response was, "And who says that
that's a bad thing?"

O.K., actually the Supreme Court's majority opinion was, 
(to paraphrase a bit because I don't recall the precise
wording of the decision): If this law had been enforced 
against a heterosexual married couple in the privacy of
their own home, then the law would clearly be 
unconstitutional.  However, in the case before us, it 
was a gay man who was arrested in the privacy of his own
home, and not a married heterosexual couple.  Therefore,
we will let the law stand as constitutional.