Oh my. Kansas is in a state of homophobia.
| Kansas appeals court backs harsher sentence for illegal gay sex, says difference justifiable
JOHN HANNA, Associated Press Writer - Friday, January 30, 2004 (01-30) 12:14 PST TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Kansas can punish illegal sex with children more harshly when it involves homosexual acts, the state Court of Appeals ruled Friday in a case being watched by national advocacy groups. Judge Henry W. Green Jr. wrote in the 2-1 decision that legislators could justify differing penalties for homosexual versus heterosexual sodomy in plenty of ways, including greater health risks or an attempt to "encourage and preserve the traditional sexual mores of society." The ruling by Kansas' second-highest court rejected an appeal by Matthew R. Limon, who was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for having sex when he was 18 with a 14-year-old boy in 2000. He was convicted of sodomy. Had Limon's partner been an underage girl, he could have been convicted of unlawful sex under the state's "Romeo and Juliet" law and sentenced at most to one year and three months in prison.... |
When I was growing up in the 70's I thought for sure that, by the time I was middle-aged, these stupid, archaic ideals currently and avidly espoused by the Christian Right would be long gone. Boy was I ever wrong.
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