Missouri Repeals Gay Sodomy Law!

[TechBear_Seattle]

Three years after the United States Supreme Court ruled all such laws unconstitutional. I'm reminded of when Alabama repealed it's law banning interracial marriage in November, 2000... 33 years after the Supreme Court ruled all such antimiscegenation laws unconstitutional. What is it about the South and being so incredibly backwards?

(Jefferson City, Missouri) Missouri lawmakers have repealed the Sexual Misconduct law - three years after the US Supreme Court ruled such laws were unconstitutional.

In 2003 the high court overturned a similar law in Texas invalidating all other sodomy laws in states where they still stood, including Missouri.

The law had been unenforceable after the ruling but when it was in effect it set a sentence of one year in jail for sex between consenting adults of the same sex.

Despite the invalidation of the law it remained on the books in Missouri until now.

The article continues at http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/06/060506missouri.htm

[meegbear]

1. Holy Meet Me In St Louis Batman!

About time states threw these inane laws out.

[displacedtexan]

2. Like the church apologizing to Galileo...

The timing is a tad off.

At least, they've seen the light.

[raccoon]

3. Missouri isn't in the South, it's in the Midwest. nt

[DBoon]

4. Wasn't it a slave state pre civil war?

nt

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. Slave state that stayed with the Union

even though many in the state sided with the South. The Germans in St. Louis (abolitionists) were one reason the state stayed in the Union.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

8. Missouri had representatives seated in the Confederate Congress.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

10. But it never formally seceded

western MO was pro South; St. Louis was pro Union. There were forts along the Black River that the Union maintained; later they made forays into Arkansas, including a skirmish at Cotton Plant. The 13th Illinois Cavalry (The German Guides)were one of the units that took part in maintaining this part of MO.

[raccoon]

11. MO had slaves but wasn't in the Confederacy. nt

[stlsaxman]

16. Oh, we're in "The South" alright...

St. Louis, Kansas City and Colombia are liberal bastions in what is DEFINITELY a "Confederate Wannabe" State.

[maseman]

18. Ohio

...is about as north as you get to Canada geographically but it is about as "south" as it gets without the accent. Missouri has always held that similar feel.

[Terran]

24. Obviously you don't live here.

Southern Missouri is *very much* the South. Missouri has the character of East, Midwest, South and West all in one state. It's a rather odd place in that regard.

[BR_Parkway]

5. So how are the MO Senators going to vote on the Anti Gay amendment?

It would appear that the "will of the people" of MO wouldn't support the amendment.

[Terran]

25. Not sure, but as to the "will of the people"...

I'm sorry to say we already passed our own anti-gay constitutional amendment with a 70% majority. It's not an issue that is determined solely along party lines.

Bond will probably vote for it, as he's basically a jerk on most issues. Talent is more afraid of offending people, so he'll probably go with the majority and vote against it.

[MuseRider]

6. It was still legal to kill Mormons

until 1976 in Missouri. They eventually get around to catching up.

[AndyTiedye]

9. At Least They DID Repeal It. This is More Than a Symbolic Gesture

The USSC is now within 1 vote of overturning Lawrence v. Texas. It could happen with the current
Court if any of the Justices who voted for that decision changes his mind. It WILL happen when
the next Justice retires or dies, unless the Democratic party has regained control by then .

If that Lawrence is overturned, those laws go back into effect wherever they haven't been repealed.
Instantly. The bedroom patrols could start that very night.

[CarlWoodward]

12. Missouri isn't southern

As others have said, Missouri isn't a southern state. Eastern Missouri, around St. Louis, has far more in common with Chicago and Cleveland than with Birmingham or Memphis. St. Louis is an old industrial, union city that is heavily Democratic (Gephardt, Clay, etc).

[Bosso 63]

15. Go to McDonald County sometime.

It's filled with all the worst southern stereo-types you can think of, rednecks, racist, bible thumpers. I just think of them as my "kin".

[greekspeak]

17. Missouri en toto is not part of any "region"

I am a native, and there is no part of the state to which I have not traveled. The northern part of the state is very much like Iowa or rural Illinois. The SW part is very much like Arkansas amd eastern Oklahoma. The flat SE part along the river is like the deep south. St. Louis is much like urbane eastern American cities. Kansas City is a meat and potatoes midwestern archetype. Missouri defies placement into any particular region.

[Sherman A1]

22. Well Said

Just like anyplace else of it's size on this planet, Missouri has a variety of people and each with a different opinion. It's just as good and bad depending upon your point of view as any other. I believe it was known as a border state and had folks leaning to both sides of the issues during the American Civil War and several good size battles were fought in this State. Union Gunboats were built in St. Louis and is served as a depot for for the war and later expansion westward. The Confederates won several battles, one at Lexington, Mo (in the center of the state along the Missouri River) with a force of around 15,000 men that I just visited.

[Trajan]

20. Having lived in Springfield for 15 months recently ....

It was awful hard for a NYC-Born/So Cal-Raised boy to get along ....

The Ozarks, while amazingly beautiful, was the most backwards, most hateful place I have ever lived in ....

Backwards conservatives everywhere make fun of 'Noo Yawk Sittay', but I will take the Big Apple over Tupelo ANY damned day of the week .....

Give me MODERN culture and FREEDOM of thought ....... I cannot accept no less ....

[Orsino]

13. It's a little late for us to be reconsidering summer vacation plans. n/t

[Imagine My Surprise]

14. Bravo! Before long, women won't have to wear high heels to work!

Praise God! Doesn't "Rev." Fred Phelps live near there? Woooooooooooooooops.

[StrongbadTehAwesome]

19. That's Kansas. n/t

[EFerrari]

21. When I read these posts, I realize how tolerant my dad has been

with me all these long years he's let me be his daughter from San Francisco.

LOL

[xchrom]

23. ...

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