[dogbyte12]

Let me be very clear for you and everybody else here. I am including all factors here. In Kansas, with a prior as a juvenile, and as an 18 year old man, you are sentenced to 15 months in prison for having sex with a 14 year old girl. With a prior as a juvenile, and as an 18 year old man, you are sentenced to 17 years in jail for having sex with a 14 year old boy.

Let there be no confusion here. The supreme court said the punishment must be the same. They in no way argued about the length a state can impose, only that the punishment must be equal.

[aristeides]

That may be what the Supreme Court's action in Limon yesterday implied, but they certainly did not come out and say it. Quote me the words.

And that does nothing to alter the fact that yesterday, the day after Kennedy said in Lawrence that that case had nothing to do with sex with minors, the Supreme Court implied a good deal more clearly that Lawrence affects the outcome of cases involving sex with minors. (Something Kennedy and the other members of the majority must have known when he was writing his Lawrence opinion.)

[Western Phil]

The supreme court said the punishment must be the same. They in no way argued about the length a state can impose, only that the punishment must be equal.

You seem to be arguing that statuary rape and statuary sodomy should be punished the same. The crime is not the same and why should the punishment be the same?