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To: Daveinyork
Let’s cut to the chase here, do you want the government to outlaw sodomy?

Until the 1970's it was in every state. Even Jefferson thought that it should be.

Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments - 1778

Whosoever shall be guilty of Rape, Polygamy, or Sodomy with man or woman shall be punished, if a man, by castration, if a woman, by cutting thro' the cartilage of her nose a hole of one half inch diameter at the least.

That's what a crafter of the Constitution thought the punishment should be. However, Virginia kept the death penalty.

172 posted on 02/14/2011 1:14:42 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: DJ MacWoW

So your answer is yes?


176 posted on 02/14/2011 1:24:30 PM PST by Daveinyork
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To: DJ MacWoW

Jefferson was not a crafter of the Constitution, he was in France when it was “crafted”, and he was not in favor of it.


180 posted on 02/14/2011 1:27:24 PM PST by Daveinyork
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