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Sodomy Laws in the United States
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that sodomy laws are
unconstitutional on June 26, 2003.
The majority opinion is based on privacy rights and is written by Kennedy,
joined by Breyer, Souter, Ginsburg, and Stephens. O'Connor concurred on equal
protection grounds.
The Decision
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/02pdf/02-102.pdf
The sodomy law map below is prior to Lawrence v. Texas. All states are now
white, ie the sodomy laws are unconstitutional and unenforceable. However,
some states still attempt to enforce their laws. See Virginia,
Oklahoma, and North
Carolina. The U.S. Military
enforces its sodomy regulation without regard to Lawrence.
14 States, Puerto Rico
and the military had sodomy laws until the ruling in Lawrence
v. Texas.
Go to a specific state:
| Alabama | Alaska |
Arkansas | Arizona | California
| Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | District of Columbia | Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas
| Kentucky | Louisiana
| Maine | Massachusetts
| Maryland | Michigan
| Minnesota | Mississippi
| Missouri | Montana
| Nebraska | New
Hampshire | New Jersey | New
Mexico | New York
| Nevada | North
Carolina | North Dakota | Ohio
| Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Puerto Rico | Rhode Island | South
Dakota | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyoming | American Samoa | Guam | Northern
Mariana Islands | Virgin Islands | US Military |
What the wackos are saying.
National News
- Craig to Make
Constitutional Argument - by The Associated Press in 365Gay.com,
October 26, 2007
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig will argue before an appeals court that Minnesota's
disorderly conduct law is unconstitutional as it applies to his conviction
in a bathroom sex sting, according to a new court filing.
- Gay
Tolerance in U.S. Reaching Record Marks - The
Christian Post, May 29, 2007
Pro-gay rights attitudes have reached high points this year, according to
a new poll, with more Americans expressing tolerance. 59 percent of
Americans believe homosexual relations should be legal.
- Alabama
Sex-Toy Ban Goes to Supreme Court - The
Advocate, May 15, 2007
An adult-store owner asks the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out Alabama's
ban on selling sex toys as an unconstitutional intrusion into the bedroom.
- Jerry
Falwell Dies at 73 - The
Advocate, May 15, 2007
The implacable anti-gay and religious right kingpin dies after being found
unconscious in his study; a colleague cites his "history of heart
challenges."
- Many Teens Don't Know the Law About Sex -
By The Associated Press in the New
York Times, October 29, 2007
ATLANTA (AP) -- The tough Georgia law that sent Genarlow Wilson to prison
for having oral sex with a fellow teenager has been watered down. But in
Georgia -- and in many other states -- it's still a crime for teenagers to
have sex, even if they're close in age.
- Clinton,
Obama Dodge GI Sodomy - GayCityNews,
April 12, 2007
Only four of the 17 presidential hopefuls - Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Dennis
Kucinich, and Mike Gravel - are willing to stand up for the right of gay
military personnel to privacy in their sexual behavior.
- Gay,
Lesbian Group Honors Controversial Jamestown Figure - The
Virginian-Pilot, March 12, 2007
Records don't show whether Richard Cornish felt like a martyr almost 400
years ago as he stood on a Jamestown gallows with a rope around his neck.
But he was adopted as one by the William and Mary Gay and Lesbian Alumni
Association. GALA and a number of activists and historians recognize
Cornish as the first man prosecuted and executed for homosexuality in the
British North American colonies.
- Gerald Ford
Supported Gays and the End of Sodomy Laws - The
Advocate, December 28, 2006
In a 2003 letter the late
president Gerald Ford wrote to his friend and colleague Charles Francis
that he supported the pro-gay side in the Texas case that ultimately led
the U.S. Supreme Court to abolish sodomy laws nationwide. The letter was
in response to a request by Francis, cochair of the gay-inclusive GOP
group Republican Unity Coalition—which Ford advised—asking Ford to
sign an op-ed piece calling for an end to sodomy laws.
- Lawmakers
Blast Emirates Over Jailing Gays - PlanetOut.com,
March 17, 2006
- U.S. Arab
Allies Attacked on Human Rights Record - 365Gay.com,
March 8, 2006
- U.S.
Legislators Press Rice on UN Vote Against Gays - Reuters,
February 8, 2006
- Bush Admin
Equates Gay Rights Groups with Pedophilia - 365Gay.com (Associated
Press), February 4, 2005
- Frank Blasts
Condi's UN Gay Position - 365Gay.com,
February 2, 2005
- United Nations: US Aligned With Iran
in Anti-Gay Vote - Reuters
(Human Rights Watch), January 25, 2006
- U.S. Nixes Gay
Inclusion At UN - 365Gay.com, January
24, 2006
- Jail
Condoms Draw Fire in U.S., Namibia - Gay.com,
January 9, 2006
- Fed
Appeals Court Asylum Outrage - Gay
City News, December 22, 2005
- Fear of Persecution Gets Gay
Lebanese Man Asylum Hearing - The
Advocate, March 9, 2005
- Gay Lebanese
Man Gets Asylum Review - PlanetOut,
March 8, 2005
- Gay Lebanese
Man Wins Asylum Hearing - 365Gay.com,
March 8, 2005
- Professional Boxers Unite to Seek Presidential
Pardon for Jack Johnson - Joint
Association of Boxers, March 2, 2005
- Justice Department to Appeal Obscenity Case
Dismissal - Florida
Baptist Witness, February 24, 2005
- Supreme Court Declines to Review Ban on Sale of
Sex Toys - The Advocate,
February 23, 2005
- Supreme Court Lets Sex Toy Ban Stay - 365Gay.com,
February 22, 2005
- Activists Share New Perspectives - The
Quad, February 21, 2005
- Bush Renominates Embattled Judges - PlanetOut,
February 16, 2005
- Antigay Pryor Renominated for Judicial Bench
- The Advocate,
February 16, 2005
- William Pryor and Janice Rogers Brown Maintain
Radical Records - National
Stonewall Democrats, February 15, 2005
- Bush Renominates Homophobic Judge - 365Gay.com,
February 15, 2005
- HRC Urges Senate Not to Confirm Anti-Fairness
Judicial Nominee William Pryor - Human
Right Campaign, February 14, 2005
- One Year Later: Pryor’s Record on 11th Circuit
- Law.com, February 11, 2005
- Reporter Quits Over Ties to Gay Sex Sites - PlanetOut,
February 10, 2005
- Mystery Anti-Gay ‘Journalist’ Goes
Underground - 365Gay.com,
February 10, 2005
- Online Reporter Quits After Liberals’ Expose
- Washington Post,
February 10, 2005
- A Federal Judge Dismisses an Obscenity
Prosecution on Privacy Grounds - FindLaw,
January 31, 2005
- Memorabilia from Jack Johnson’s Era Packs
Quite a Punch - San Francisco
Chronicle, January 31, 2005
- Jackson Seeks Posthumous Pardon for Boxer
Johnson - Chicago
Tribune, January 30, 2005
- Message Regarding NBC’s “The
West Wing” - Assembly of Turkish
American Associations, January 28, 2005
- Visitors Drawn to Jack Johnson’s Grave in
Chicago - Chicago
Tribune, January 25, 2005
- Pardoning Jack Johnson - Alternet.org,
January 19, 2005
- Feds Made Johnson, and Interracial Sex
America’s Taboo - EURweb,
January 18, 2005
- Jack Johnson Film Goes a Round Against Racism
- Boston Herald,
January 16, 2005
- The Great Jack Johnson - BoxingScene.com,
January15, 2005
- Gay Nigerian Detained 11 Months
Wins US Asylum - December 6, 2004
- The Culture Wars (Kinsey) - December 6, 2004
- Robertson: Gays And Lesbians Are
“Self-Absorbed Hedonists ... That Want to Impose Their Particular
Sexuality on the Rest of America” - December 2, 2004
- Alfred Kinsey, and Judith Reisman's Dirty Little
Mind - November 2004
- Kinsey Lives! - November 23, 2004
- Repeat Offender (Kinsey) - November 19-25,
2004
- The Kinsey Effect - November 15, 2004
- Esteemed Committee Spearheads Boxer Jack Johnson
Presidential Pardon Effort; Praises Senate Resolution - October 7,
2004
- McCain Resolution Calling on President to
Posthumously Pardon First African American Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Passes Senate - October 7, 2004
- Judges Have too Much Power in Social Issues
Scalia Says - September 29, 2004
- Scalia Describes
‘Dangerous’ Trend - The
Harvard Crimson, September 29, 2004
- ‘Politics Trumps Science’ at Psychological
Association, Critic Says - August 4, 2004
- Jack Johnson Pardon Brief - July 30, 2004
- Few Laws Help Gays in Cases of Domestic Violence
- July 21, 2004
- Court Questions Bush’s Appointment of Antigay
Judge - July 21, 2004
- Appeals Court Questions Bush Anti-Gay Judicial
Appointment - July 20, 2004
- Democrats Ready to Vote on Marriage - July
10, 2004 [President Bush reverses his long held position on sodomy laws
while advocating a constitutional amendment to enshrine discrimination in
the U.S. Constitution.]
- Sexual Freedom Activists Target ‘Archaic,
Unjust’ Sex Laws - June 1, 2004
- Old Anti-Gay Sex Laws Remain on the Books in
Many States - May 31, 2004
- Suit Filed by Ex-Madonna Beau Rejected - May
29, 2004
- National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force and Woodhull Freedom Foundation Announce Joint
Effort Study of U.S. Sex Laws - May 28, 2004
- A Family Business: For the Rev. Lou Sheldon and
His Daughter, Marriage Means Only One Thing - May 20, 2004
- Acceptance of Gays on Rise, Polls Show -
March 30, 2004
- Reports of Anti-Gay Violence Increase - March
18, 2004
- HRC Strongly Condemns Recess Appointment of
William Pryor to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit -
February 20, 2004
- Bypasses Senate—Bush Places Anti-Gay on Bench
- February 20, 2004
- Senate Begins Work on Anti-Gay Amendment -
February 7, 2004
- Cornyn Blasts Gay Marriage Ruling, Plans
Hearings - February 6, 2004
- History Book Records U.S. Government’s
Persecution of Gays - December 31, 2003
- Historian David K. Johnson: Exposes the U.S.
Government’s Anti-Gay Crusades - December 31, 2003
- Annals of Homosexuality: From Greek to Grim to
Gay - December 13, 2003
- The Lavender Scare - November 1, 2003
- Scalia Falsely Portrayed as Scoffer, Group Says
- October 27, 2003
- Conservative
Supreme Court Justice Ridicules Sodomy Ruling - October 25, 2003
- DNC Chairman McAuliffe Statement on Justice
Scalia’s Speech at the ISI - October 24, 2003
- Justice Mocks Liberal Colleagues, Recent Decision
on Sodomy Laws - October 24, 2003
- Scalia Skewers Fellow Supremes - October 24,
2003
- Scalia Ridicules Court’s Sodomy Decision -
October 24, 2003
- Scalia Derides High Court’s Gay Sex Ruling
- October 24, 2003
- Scalia Ridicules Court’s Gay Sex Ruling -
October 23, 2003
- Senate Confirms Mosman - September 27, 2003
- HRC Decries Advancement of Pryor Nomination to
Senate Vote - July 25, 2003
- National Stonewall Democrats Decries Republican
Advancement of Anti-Gay Nominee - July 23, 2003
- Santorum’s GQ Comments Provoke More Controversy
- The Advocate, July 23, 2003
- Court’s Opinion on Gay Rights Reflects Trends
- July 18, 2003
- Gay
in the USA - July 15, 2003
- What Gay Studies Taught the Court - July 13,
2003
- Debate on Gay Unions Splits Along Generations
- July 7, 2003
- Adversaries on Gay Rights Vow
State-by-State Fight - July 6, 2003
- Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Draws Wide Disapproval
- July 5, 2003
- Pryor Faces Angry Democratic Committee - The
Data Lounge, June 13, 2003
- Another Bush Judicial Nominee Under Fire - The
Data Lounge, June 11, 2003
- Log Cabin Republicans Oppose Nomination of
Alabama Attorney General William Pryor to U.S. Court of Appeals - Log
Cabin Republicans, June 9, 2003
- Six out of 10 Americans Say
Homosexual Relations Should Be Recognized as Legal - Gallup
News Service, May 15, 2003
- Majority of Americans Believe Homosexuality
Should Not Be Illegal, Support Partner Rights: Gallup Poll - 365Gay.com,
May 15, 2003
- Dems Tout Stances on Gays - Raleigh
News & Observer, May 12, 2003
- Shurtleff Stands Behind His Support
of Antisodomy Law - Salt Lake
Tribune, May 3, 2003
- Sexing the Spirit - Michael Bronski in
the Boston Phoenix,
May 2-8, 2003
- Pro-Gay Senator Backs Judicial Nominee - The
Advocate, May 2, 2003
- Federal Judicial Candidate Says He’s Not
Antigay - The Advocate,
April 29, 2003
- Mosman Meets with Gay Rights Supporters - The
Oregonian, April 26, 2003
- Three Bush Judicial Nominees Attacked on Gay
Record - Houston Voice,
April 25, 2003
- Smith’s Pick Stirs Gay-Rights Controversy
- The Oregonian,
April 21, 2003
- Bush Nominee Has Antigay History - Advocate,
April 11, 2003
- A ‘Safe Sex’ Guide in House Gym Causes
Embarrassment - The Hill,
April 2, 2003
- Disorder in the Courts - Frontiers
Newsmagazine, March 14, 2003
- Returning Home Would Mean Death,
Says Iranian Student - Gay
People’s Chronicle, February 28, 2003
- Students Getting More Gay-Friendly - January
31, 2003
- Lambda Legal to Host Town Halls in 13 States
- January 11, 2003
- Not Just About Sex - December 16, 2002
- Rental Discrimination Still a Fact of Gay Life
- December 12, 2002
- Supreme Court to Revisit Sodomy Laws -
December 8, 2002
- Can the Supreme Court Change Its Mind? -
December 5, 2002
- Perry Calls Sodomy Law ‘Appropriate’ -
December 4, 2002
- Black Robes Don’t Make the Justice, but the
Rest of His Closet Just Might - December 4, 2002
- Court to Hear Texas Case on Gay Rights -
December 3, 2002
- Top Court to Address Sodomy - December 3,
2002
- Justices to Reconsider Ruling Against Sex Between
Gays - December 3, 2002
- Court to Weigh Texas’ Ban on Gay Sodomy -
December 3, 2002
- Justices to Decide Same-Sex Sodomy - December
3, 2002
- Justices Take Gay-Rights Case - December 3,
2002
- Sodomy Case to be Heard by Top Court -
December 3, 2002
- Supreme Court Nears Momentous Decision -
December 2, 2002
- Supreme Court to Hear Sodomy Case - December
2, 2002
- Supreme Court Will Hear Sodomy Case -
December 2, 2002
- Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Sodomy Case -
December 2, 2002
- Supreme Court to Decide Texas Sodomy Law -
December 2, 2002
- HRC Applauds Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear
Texas Sodomy Case -
December 2, 2002
- Equality Virginia Applauds Supreme Court’s
Decision to Hear Texas Sodomy Case - December 2, 2002
- US Supreme Court Takes Up Gay Sex Challenge -
November 30, 2002
- High Court Poised to Hear 2 Equal Protection
Cases - November 29, 2002
- The Second Annual
Sodomy Challenge is Underway - September 4, 2002
- High Court May Hear
Sodomy Case - July 16, 2002
- U.S. Supreme Court
Asked to Review Constitutionality of Texas "Homosexual Conduct"
Law - July 16, 2002
- Group Hopes Texas
Sodomy Case Heard - July 16, 2002
- Gay Sex Law Appealed
to U.S. High Court - July 16, 2002
- Sodomy Wars Continue
in the Court - April, 2002
- The Dark Legacy of
Justice White - April 24, 2002
- Supreme Court Jurist Was a Star on and Off the
Bench - April 16, 2002
- Former Supreme Court Justice Byron White Dies
- April 15, 2002
- Former Justice White Dies at 84 - April 15,
2002
- Sex-Crime Panic: Could It Happen Today?
- January 21, 2002
- NCSF Incident Response Statistics for a One Year
Period - January 7, 2002
- Who’s the Best, Legally Speaking? -
November 9, 2001
- Human Rights Campaign Awards $104,000 in Equality
Funds to State Organizations - October 31, 2001
- VOA Head: Homosexuality ‘Morally Disordered’
- October 12, 2001
- The Sodomy Challenge - October 9, 2001
- Court Refuses Discrimination Case
- October 9, 2001
- Congressmen Condemn Egypt -
August 7, 2001
- Gays Seeking Asylum Find Familiar Prejudices in
U.S. - August 2, 2001
- Lesbian Journalists: Supreme Court, News Media
Ignore Gays’ Rights - July 30, 2001
- Activists Hope to Reverse Anti-Gay Ruling -
July 30, 2001
- Bowers v. Hardwick at
15 - July 12, 2001
- Gay Abuse in Uganda Gets U.S.
Attention - July 10, 2001
- New Justices Will Strongly Affect Gay Americans
- June 20, 2001
- Books: Homosexuality and the High Court -
June 10, 2001
- American Attitudes Toward
Homosexuality Continue to Become More Tolerant - Gallup News Service, June 4, 2001
- U.S. Supreme Court Evolution Stirs Hope -
June 4, 2001
- More Sodomy Laws on the Way Out - May 31,
2001
- Gay-Rights Opponents Seek, and in Some Cases
Find, Their Way into Proxies - May 15, 2001
- Pro-Gay Trend Endures - March 9, 2001
- Guidelines Questioned Security Clearance Query
Raises Eyebrows - May 4, 2001
- Looking Inward, Freshmen Care Less About Politics
and More About Money (excerpt) - January 26, 2001
- New Bills in NC, MS, TX, AZ - January 12, 2001
- Those Naughty Pilgrims - November 2000
- Parties Shift in Legislatures - November 17, 2000
- Gays Evoke Violent Reactions in US - October
15, 2000
- 2000 Presidential Candidates on Sodomy Laws - September 17,
2000
- Holocaust’s Gay Victims - July 14, 2000
- Long-Time Litigator in Lesbian, Gay Civil Rights Leaves Lambda
Legal Defense - June 22, 2000
- Louisiana May Be Latest in ‘Overwhelming Trend’ of
State Courts Finding Sodomy Laws Unconstitutional - April 10, 2000
- Statehouse Sweep: Pro-Gay Bills Lead in States Trend Continues
from 1999 - March 24, 2000
- In the Biblical Sense - November 29, 1999
- 'Unnatural' Sex Still Gets Prosecuted - April
19, 1999
- Making Love Legal - March 1999
- Letter: Making the Law Review - February 25,
2000
- Scene of the crime; laws against gay sex can block everything we
want - October 27, 1998
- Sodom and Gomorrah: Where it all began - October 27, 1998
- Lewis F. Powell Jr., Who Became the Quiet Centrist of
the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 90 - August 26, 1998
- Ex-Supreme Court Justice Powell Dies - August 25, 1998
- Letter: Leftover laws hurt - April 19, 1998
- An ever-shifting landscape - February 13, 1998
- States Ease Registration Laws That Swept Up Gays - November
26, 1997
- Powell regrets backing sodomy law - October 26, 1990
- Homosexuals Get Short Shrift from the Supreme Court,
But an Expert Says History Tells a Different Tale - July 21, 1986
- Knocking on the Bedroom Door - July 14, 1986
- Sick No More - December 16, 1973
- Doctors Support Sodomy Law Repeal - January
1970
State by state news archive
Congressional Action
Lobbying
- Police Executive Research Forum Opposing Amendment No. 1251
- February 8, 1990
- American Jewish Congress Opposing Amendment No. 1251 -
July 14, 1989
- American Civil Liberties Union Opposing Amendment No. 1251
- July 14, 1989
- The American Jewish Committee Opposing Amendment No. 1251
- July 14, 1989
- National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Opposing
Amendment No.
1251 - July 14, 1989
- Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism Opposing
Amendment
No. 1251 - July 14, 1989
- National Gay Rights Advocates Opposing Amendment No. 1251
- February 8, 1990
- Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Opposing
Amendment No.
1251 - July 18, 1989
- Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Opposing
Amendment
No. 1251 - July 13, 1989
- People For The American Way Action Fund Opposing
Amendment
No. 1251 - July 19, 1989
- Washington Bureau, National Association for The Advancement
of Colored People Opposing Amendment No. 1251 - July 18, 1989
Other Testimony on Sodomy Laws
Editorials
- The
Larry Craig Phenomenon Again - This Time in Indiana - Arthur S.
Leonard in the Leonard
Link,
There has reportedly been a renewed spate of undercover police arrests of
men cruising restrooms and parks since the Larry Craig story hit the news.
This is, of course, an old story, a cat-and-mouse game played between law
enforcement and men - many closeted, some relatively openly gay - going
back many decades. And every now and then an appellate decision surfaces
showing how the game may be played. The latest I’ve seen is from the
Indiana Court of Appeals, Isom v. State of Indiana, 2007 WL
3287515, an unofficially published decision available on Westlaw that is
dated November 8, 2007.
- Can
I Get a Little Privacy? - Dan Savage in the New
York Times, November 16, 2005
- The Constitution Does Not Permit Polygamy
or Same-Sex Marriage - Michael J.
Gaynor in MichNews.com,
March 18, 2005 (Extreme Conservative)
- Tattoos and Taboos: Those Times Are
Constantly A-Changin’ - Chuck
Avery in The Star Press,
March 14, 2005
- What Adults Watch Is None of the
Government’s Business - Robyn Blumner in Salt
Lake Tribune, March 2, 2005
- Sex and the Disgruntled Teen - Mark
Morford in the SF Gate, February
25, 2005
- A Chance to Rewrite History - Alvin
Williams in The Washington
Times (Owned by the Unification Church), February 19, 2005
- Johnson Took Hits Outside Ring, Too -
Eugene Kane in the Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel, February 10, 2005
- The Supposed Sin of Defying Nature: Part
One - Russell Blackford on BetterHumans.com,
January 19, 2005
- Time for Johnson’s Pardon - Jeff
Parish in the The Galveston County
Daily News, January 19, 2005
- ‘Unforgivably’ Black & All-American
- Stanley Crouch in the New
York Daily News, January 17, 2005
- Jack Johnson’s Painful Tale - Dick
Heller in the Washington Times,
January 16, 2005
- ‘Unforgivable’
Not to Forgive Johnson - Tom
Hoffarth
L.A. Daily News,
January 16, 2005
- The Bible Tells Me So - Vicki Haddock
in the San Francisco Chronicle,
December 12, 2004
- The Plot Against Sex in America - Frank
Rich in The New York Times,
December 12, 2004
- America Loves Kinky Sex (Kinsey) - Mark
Morford in the SF
Gate, December 1, 2004
- Mr. President, Pardon Jack Johnson - Ken Burns in the Los
Angeles Times, July 13, 2004
- Why Religious People Are Against Gay
Marriage - Steven Waldman on Slate,
November 19, 2003
- Four Letters from Bakersfield - July
15-18, 2003
- There’s No Stopping Them Now - Mark Steyn in the Chicago
Sun Times, July 13, 2003
- About Fairness and My Family - Linda Kaufman in The
Washington Post, March 30, 2003
- We Are All Sodomites Now -
Andrew Sullivan in The New Republic,
March 26, 2003
- Mosman Should Answer Question - The
Oregonian, March 17, 2003
- Getting Government Out of the Bedroom -
Cathy Young in the Boston
Globe, December 16, 2002
- Sodomy Laws in Violation of Human Rights
- US Raelian Movement, December 9, 2002
- Anti-Sodomy Laws Should Be Killed - Deb
Price in the Detroit News,
December 9, 2002
- Equal Rights for Gays - New
York Times, December 8, 2002
- Editorial: Peeping Into Bedrooms - Salt
Lake Tribune, December 7, 2002
- Texas Law Makes Being Gay a Crime - Jan
Jarboe Russell in the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, December 6, 2002
- Consenting
Adults: Equality at Issue in High Court Anti-Sodomy Case - Philadelphia
Inquirer, December 6, 2002
- Rights Create State of Confusion - Amarillo
Globe-News, December 5, 2002
- Time to Evict Police from Our Bedrooms -
Chicago Tribune,
December 5, 2002
- Editorial: Will Court Uphold Sexual Privacy?
- Orange
County Register, December 5, 2002
- Morality Police Knocking Down Doors -
Steve Skutnik in the Iowa
State Daily, December 4, 2002
- What Does This Law Accomplish? - Heber
Taylor in the Galveston
Daily News, December 3, 2002
- Sodomy Laws Revisited - Washington
Post, December 3, 2002
- Court to Consider Sodomy Law - Focus
on the Family, December 3, 2002
- Legislating from the Bench - Family
Research Council, December 3, 2002
-
Court Gets
Chance to Ban Sodomy Laws - Deb Price in the Detroit News
- July 29, 2002
- Death Penalty Ruling Has Ramifications -
Deb Price in the Detroit News,
July 1, 2002
- The Enron Scandal & The Left’s
"Social Engineering" Agenda - January 29, 2002
- The Power of Words In a Vile Assault - Ellis Henican in
Newsday, May 21, 1999
- Blackmun Laid Cornerstone for Liberating Gay Americans -
Deb Price, March 15, 1999
- Sodomy and Other Crimes Against Nature - Stephen H.
Miller, December 17, 1998
- Infamous Sodomy Law Struck Down -
Nat Hentoff
in Village Voice, December 16 -
22, 1998
- Thwarting the Sex Police - Chicago Tribune, December 15, 1998
- In Many States, Sodomy Laws Make Gays Criminals - Debbie
Woodell in Philadelphia Daily News,
December 8, 1998
- Why We Need to Keep Sodomy Laws on the Books - December
6, 1998
- Why We Should Get Rid of Sodomy Laws - December 6, 1998
- Sodomy Laws Set Needed Standards - December 4, 1998
- The Last Gasp of Jim Crow - November 21, 1998
- States Ease Registration Laws That Swept Up Gays - November
26, 1997
- Courting Disaster; Can We Have Sex With Whomever
We Want The Way We Want It? - Playboy,
December, 1986
- Jurist’s Death Marks Legacy of Ignorance
- Deb Price, September 10, 1998
- God Save This Vulnerable Court - National Review, August
15, 1986
- The Failure
- Drum Magazine, September, 1965
10 States and Puerto Rico with sodomy laws which applied to heterosexuals and
homosexuals (On the map in black)
4 states with sodomy laws which applied only to homosexuals (On the map in red)
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
States where sodomy laws have been repealed legislatively (On
map in white)
Sodomy laws have also been repealed in American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Virgin Islands.
Judicial invalidation
Pennsylvania – Commonwealth v. Bonadio, 1980
New York – People v. Onofre, 1980
Kentucky – Commonwealth v. Wasson, 1992
Tennessee – Campbell v. Sundquist, 1996
Montana – Gryczan
v. Montana, 1997
Georgia – Powell
v. State, 1998
Maryland – Williams v. Glendening, 1998
Minnesota
– Doe, et al. v. Ventura, et al., 2001
Massachusetts
– Doe v. Reilly, 2002
Arkansas
– Picado
v. Jegley, 2002
The penalties for violating sodomy laws in the USA until
Lawrence:
Idaho, 5 years to life
Oklahoma, 20 years
Michigan, 15 years
Mississippi, 10 years
Puerto Rico, 8 - 20 years
Louisiana, 5 years/$2000
South Carolina, 5 years/$500
North Carolina, 3 years
Virginia, 1-5 years
Alabama, 1 year/$2000
Missouri, 1 year/$1000
Kansas, 6 months/$1000
Utah, 6 months/$299
Florida, 60 days/$500
Texas, $500
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