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I've listed the following definition from Reverso as support for my edit substituting the word "universal" for "pervasive," as the word pervasive is really not a very neutral word. A law that was universal less than fifty years ago can hardly be so uncontroversially bad as to permit us to use such a word in a encyclopedia article.
pervasive
Something, especially something bad, that is pervasive is present or felt throughout a place or thing.
Any details on how sodomy was defined according to these Laws prior to 2003? i.e: "Idaho (all sexes; felony punishable by imprisonment for 5 years to life)". So, to which of anal/oral/BDSM/other sexual practices... for married/unmarried couples was this applicable?
There is a contradiction in the text -- in the beginning it says "gay sex" but then lists states where the laws apply to "all sexes". It seems therefore, that gay sex (which itself is not too clear -- was that male-male sex only, as in other countries, or also female-female sex?) was not the only target of those laws. -- John Smythe 02:59, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Only Texas (Just $500 Max), Oklahoma (10 Years Max) and Kansas (6 months Max) same-sex only left in the statutes (Not enforced).
Missouri (2006) and Puerto Rico (2005) / (Oral sex only) repealed these anti-same-sex law(s) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 124.183.121.151 (talk) 07:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC).
Michigan In Michigan Organization for Human Rights v. Kelley 1990, a trial court ruled Michigan’s sodomy law unconstitutional under the state constitution. The ruling was not petition that ruling so it is consideration the choice is necessary on all state prosecutors. On the other hand, because the case subsists brought on behalf of select people and nplea, present status of the law is in uncertainty [4] [5]. (all sexes; felony punishable by up to 15 years imprisonment - Repeat offenders get life); statute was struck down by Wayne County judge but status was unclear.
The links are both dead, too. I'm not an expert on the law in Michigan, but I'm adding a link to a newspaper story which definitively shows that the Michigan law was overturned by Lawrence v. Texas in 2003.Textorus (talk) 20:46, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
It seems odd to me that there is no actual discussion of Sodomy laws in the United States here, only a celebration that they have been repealed. Is there someone out there with some knowldege of the purported subject of this article who can write something about it? CsikosLo (talk) 16:14, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
My understanding of the 2003 Supreme Court decision (and I have read it cover to cover) is that it invalidated the Texas law precisely because it treated gay people differently from heterosexuals. Therefore, it did not invalidate sodomy laws that are egalitarian with respect to that divide. If heterosexual and homosexual conduct is equally regulated, that Supreme Court decision doesn't affect the law. If that's right, then this entry is hopelessly misinformed and misleading, even outright wrong in several places. Parableman (talk) 14:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
This entry uses the phrase "legislative repeal" to denote a law that has been repealed. But repeal requires the passage of a new law, which requires action by a legislature 'and a governor or, in rare instance, by a legislature alone overriding a governor's veto. Why don't we just say "repeal" or "repealed by statute"? Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 15:31, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Should be clarified. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.172.74.184 (talk) 19:53, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
While the article provides a good summary of what these laws prohibited in terms of oral and anal sex, sometimes the same laws also banned other practices like bestiality. It would be useful to know which state or federal laws did (or do) this, because it illustrates how governments associated homosexuality with such other things. Also, I suspect these other parts of the laws were kept intact, so some sodomy laws weren't so much repealed as they were modified, but they probably aren't called sodomy laws now. I hope someone has this information to add. 24.57.210.141 (talk) 03:27, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Here are the Florida laws associated with sexual behavior. The word "sodomy" does not exist in the literature, so a more comprehensive search of related to all sexual behavior was performed (hardly the correct word to use in this context). Where the "sections" are way too long to list, a reference link to the entire chapter is included.
Sliceofmiami (talk) 20:07, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
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It mentions castration as the punishment for sodemy, polygamy and what not.. But it should be noted that Jefferson felt that females who engaged in such activities should be punished with "by cutting thro' the cartilage of her nose a hole of one half inch diameter at the least." Should that be included?Mantion (talk) 02:30, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
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This graphic was in the text but unless I'm missing something I don't see how it can possibly be accurate as all sodomy laws were declared unconstitutional in 2003.
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I'm soliciting some help in trying to establish the validity of this set of edits on 5 August 2013, referencing an article in the Times-Picayune titled "Sodomy law revisions are upheld on appeal", thus implying there was a revision to the Louisiana sodomy law (presumably Louisiana R.S. 14:89), the validity of the revision to the law purportedly having been challenged and upheld.
Neither archive.org nor archive.is has a usable copy of the article, and I have been unsuccessful at locating this article or some other article about a change to the law within the apparent time frame (e.g. 2003-2005). The "best" I have found is a change to R.S. 14:89 made in 2010.
I'd like somebody else to look this over before we consider removing it. Perhaps there's a way to figure out all the different revisions that have been made to this statute in the relevant time frame and hopefully identify either an article supporting this or the specific court case it is referencing.
As far as I understand, the Louisiana law has never been modified to comply with Lawrence v Texas, a bill to do so having failed to pass in 2014. Fabrickator (talk) 01:43, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
A bill in Maryland has passed into law to repeal the ban. It is effective October 1st, 2020. Is it the policy to wait for the bill to be effective before making the necessary edits on this page?
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Legality of same-sex sexual activity
Decriminalization of same-sex sexual intercourse in the United States
Both of the above would make more sense wouldn't they? As not all of same sex relationships are related to the articles antiquated laws. That way this page could be merged with a more apt title, and put in the "historical" part, as in past tense. 49.185.177.195 (talk) 19:59, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
the 2001 Hennepin County decision found the Minnesota sodomy law 609.293 to be unconstitutional as applied to private, noncommercial acts by consenting adults in Doe v. Ventura.
yet this page shows that married and unmarried couples as covered under the law, when this is not the case. 2600:1014:B04F:5B6A:488:4A69:3A96:E2A8 (talk) 16:20, 28 June 2022 (UTC)