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To: judgemc

Rape used to be a capital crime a couple of generations ago. It still should be.

Regarding same sex sodomy, until maybe 100 or more years ago it was often a capital crime as well. "Crime against nature" it was often called. Thomas Jefferson, being the enlightened gentleman that he was, made sure that Virginia softened the death penalty for same sex sodomy into merely castration and, I believe, confiscation of the perp's estates and possibly banishment. I have the info somewhere, could look it up.

Sex with a minor, or forcible sex, is always very, very wrong. When it involves a same sex victim, it is even more wrong.


42 posted on 05/04/2005 10:42:49 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Resisting evil is our duty or we are as responsible as those promoting it.)
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To: little jeremiah

Rape is rape. The sex of the perpetraitor and the victim should not matter in the least bit. The defendant should get the same amount of time for raping a girl or a boy. Rape is not "more wrong" when the victim is the smae sex as the perpitraitot.

IT'S JUST WRONG PERIOD!


54 posted on 05/05/2005 3:46:02 PM PDT by judgemc (My judicial sense is tingling)
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