You are the first intelligent shining light on this thread that I have read. I am adamantly opposed to the gay lifestyle, however, this situation is gay/straight neutral, or should be legally. If 18/14 straight sex is 15 mo., 18/14 homo sex should be 15 mo.
Actually, the "equal protection" issue doesn't apply, give that heterosexual acts bear no equality to homosexual acts, both morally and so far, socially and often legally.
The issue here is that homosexual acts are being made out to be "mere sexual acts" on the acceptable (and evaluative) basis of heterosexual acts. And that the defenders of this particular issue/case in Kansas rely on the "equal protection" measure to force their insistence (very important issue to homosexual activism) that "homosexuality" is on equal footing, of parallel status, with heterosexuality.
That is the actual issue of this case, not this one guy's time in prison, but the evaluation process of just what is "equal" and what is not.