The S word, was Re: Transgender marriage

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2002 - 17:38:31 MST


Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> Dictionary definitions have nothing to do with laws. Almost all sodomy laws
> include oral sex as well. In Florida, sodomy laws do not even require a
> penis to be involved. Believe it or not, the law was specifically amended
> to allow mothers to breast-feed their babies! Florida is famous for vague
> laws.

Yup. And Florida is far from alone, as I'm sure Harvey knows.

In terms of "blue laws", "sodomy" is whatever sexual activity some legislature
considered depraved and deserving of smiting by the Almighty. Terrific, huh?
This can mean anything they saw or imagined in a Cecil B. DeMille silent film.
Including fornication.

Oddly, "gomorrahmy" is seldom legislated against.

MMB

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butler a t comp - lib . o r g    Wm. Burroughs said it best: "After a shooting spree,
I am not here to have an argument.        they always want to take the guns away
I am here as part of a civilization.        from the people who didn't do it."


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