Last edited: March 28, 2004

Kentucky

• Statute: Ruled Unconstitutional 1992
• Case Law: Commonwealth v. Wasson, 842 S.W.2d 487 (Ky. 1992)

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History

• The Sensibilities of Our Forefathers

            1918     A contradictory guide for justices of the peace is published which defines sodomy as 1) sodomy, buggery, and bestiality, which it claimed were synonymous; 2) sodomy was not bestiality; and 3) sodomy was unnatural copulation with man or beast, but it also was only unnatural copulation between humans.

            1954     Kentucky becomes the first state adopting a state Uniform Code of Military Justice for its militia, based on the federal code, to include a specific sodomy provision. In 1970, it becomes the first state as well to repeal this explicit provision.

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News

• Individual Rights Champion to Speak - April 26, 2002
• Gay Panic Defense Could Get Boost from Kentucky Bill - February 1, 2001
• Central High Council Votes To Keep Explicit Novels - c1997?
• Lawmaker Says Proposal Holds No Hidden Agenda - April 16, 1996
• Amendments Slow House And Senate - February 15, 1996
• Sodomy Ban Considered - January 16, 1996

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