In Kansas up until this week, you got 204 months in jail for the former, 15 months for the latter. 13.6 times the amount of jail time. I see this an inequitable. I can see others justify it by stating that homosexuality is a more grave evil and the sentencing disparity is just. However, it still doesn't address the equal protection problem.
I haven't thought about the issue enough to have a considered opinion. If I did, I might well decide that I don't want there to be such a law. But the issue here is whether the Supreme Court has the right to strike down such a law as unconstitutional. If all bad laws are going to be declared unconstitutional, we're in a heap of trouble.
OK, I'll be up front about it. Homosexual molestation is a crime that cries out to God for justice. It IS worse than heterosexual rape.
If an 18 year old man rapes my 14 year old daughter, I'll only castrate the bastard and send him to jail for Bubba's enjoyment.
If an 18 year old man homosexually molests my 14 year old son, I'll kill him. Probably with a Louisville Slugger. And if any lawman reads my posts here, they can argue at my trial that it was premeditated.
Happy now? Yes, homosexual molestion is a far more grave violation than heterosexual rape. Both are reprehensible! But homosexual molestation is a crime against the law and the Natural Law.
That's why there has been such an outcry against the sex scandal in the Roman Catholic Church. If the offenses had only been heterosexual in nature, the headlines would not have been as big or lasted as long.
But they were not. They were homosexual molestations of teenage boys, a far greater offense in the eyes of thinking sane Americans.