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To: Weird Tolkienish Figure
Sigh, that is a (vulgar disrespectful term deleted) ugly pic but I do prefer my conservatism on the libertarian side. Glad I don’t live in Texas I guess.

A) You need to research the term "sodomy" Its root is the term "sodomite" referring to the biblical reference to Sodom and Gomorrah..

B) You need to research this nations "sodomy laws" they were on the books here in the good old USA from day one...

C) Freedom and liberty were never intended to be a trophy for perversion, degeneracy and moral insanity. Perhaps the "sodomites" should move to France, Spain, Sweden or some other sodomite friendly locale where they grant credence to morally insane perverts and degenerates.

53 posted on 06/23/2010 5:32:00 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K (The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
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To: DirtyHarryY2K

The word “sodomy” has biblical roots, but - in the American legal tradition - the word has never meant homosexuality. Homosexual acts are an example of sodomy, but the word meant a lot else besides. Generally, oral and anal sex were prohibited, even among married couples, occasionally - but not always - sex acts between women were prohibited, and at various times, intercourse with contraception (”face-to-face sodomy”), masturbation, and what the law called “extended foreplay” (that did not lead to intercourse) were also prohibited by the sodomy laws.

Whether these laws were vigorously enforced was not primary. The laws were an expression of communal morality, and served to remind people that the purpose of sex was procreation.

My own view is that such laws made sense in the past but not today, when the law has taken a hands-off approach to sexual matters in most other areas (adultery, fornication, divorce/remarriage, etc). Reintroducing sodomy laws now would certainly be constitutional, but they would be entirely unenforceable, and would bring the law into disrepute.


63 posted on 06/23/2010 10:45:36 PM PDT by friendly_doc
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To: DirtyHarryY2K
C) Freedom and liberty were never intended to be a trophy for perversion, degeneracy and moral insanity. Perhaps the "sodomites" should move to France, Spain, Sweden or some other sodomite friendly locale where they grant credence to morally insane perverts and degenerates.
Close your eyes and you can almost picture a Mudslum saying this.
82 posted on 06/24/2010 12:35:17 PM PDT by Weird Tolkienish Figure
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