Posted on 04/18/2013 6:17:02 PM PDT by markomalley
An obsolete law deeming gay sex as deviant — akin to bestiality — was stricken from Montana code Thursday, prompting gay rights activists to say they hope that full legal equality may be close at hand.
When Montana Gov. Steve Bullock signed Senate Bill 107 decriminalizing gay sex, cheers erupted in the Capitol's Rotunda. It had been 16 years after the state Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional and 24 years after gay rights activists began their fight to take government out of the bedroom.
"I am not going to speak too long because, frankly, the longer I talk, the longer this embarrassing and unconstitutional law stays on the books," Bullock said.
The victory, though a powerful one for the gay community in Montana, is highly symbolic with no tangible benefits aside from striking the obsolete law condemning gay sex from Montana code. The outdated code has not been used to prosecute individuals for years. And previous efforts to offer gays and lesbians protection under the law, including a push to prohibit civil discrimination, have been thwarted by a GOP-controlled Legislature.
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Typical Rat scumbag.Why do I get that feeling that he’s has his share of rectal syphilis outbreaks...regardless of his marital status?
Virginia may be for lovers but Montana is for puddin eating cowboys.
It sounds like Stevie plans on hittin’ the “gay” bars tonight!
First the Californians hit Colorado and now Montana.
The libs poop in their beds to the point they cannot even stand it, then move on.
because of all the problems going on the homostapo can’t stop their agenda
Bareback Montana
So will they all have a fudge packing social down at the community center now?
Does not appear that they were even enforcing the law in Montana.
He may as well have signed making bestiality legal too.
It’s the next thing to Homosexual sex.
I would imagine that at leat 75 percent of MT people strongly support this, or they don’t know who they are electing if the converse is true.
That's next. Baaaaa...
I guess now Montana is the “Buggery State”
Try incest. Libs are effing’ sick people
They weren't, and aren't any where that I can tell. I guess some people want a law that will never be enforced to remain on the books anyway.....
Gay sex is not an express, constitutionally protected right. So I’m wondering if such laws are “unconstitutional” based on pro-gay, PC interpretation of certain clauses in Section 1 of the 14th Amendment. Note that since Section 2 of 14A discriminates on bases of sex, age and citizenship, pro-gay PC intretations of Section 1 are bogus imo.
It’s automatically unenforceable. This wasn’t necessary.
No, it wasn’t, but probably a good thing that the gay lobby spent time and treasure on getting it done. Kept them tied up (ooh, bad visual I guess...)
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