Tuesday, October 14, 2003
File under, "Things to Get Used to in Louisiana":
What we in the Bay Area call "Tuesday in the Castro" the Louisiana Penal Code, Section 740-89 (and the state Supreme Court which upheld the law) calls a "crime against nature":
LOUISIANA 740-89 Crime against nature. Crime against nature is the unnatural carnal copulation by a human being with another of the same or opposite sex or with an animal. Emission is not necessary, and when committed by a human being with another, the use of the genital organ of one of the offenders of whatever sex is sufficient to constitute the crime. Whoever commits the crime against nature shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars, or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than five years, or both.
In other words, the pooper = the slammer.
And they enforce it:
http://www.sodomylaws.org/usa/louisiana/lanews22.htm
Boy, guess I'll really have to cut back on my public gay sex. Um, I mean...yeah.
What we in the Bay Area call "Tuesday in the Castro" the Louisiana Penal Code, Section 740-89 (and the state Supreme Court which upheld the law) calls a "crime against nature":
LOUISIANA 740-89 Crime against nature. Crime against nature is the unnatural carnal copulation by a human being with another of the same or opposite sex or with an animal. Emission is not necessary, and when committed by a human being with another, the use of the genital organ of one of the offenders of whatever sex is sufficient to constitute the crime. Whoever commits the crime against nature shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars, or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than five years, or both.
In other words, the pooper = the slammer.
And they enforce it:
http://www.sodomylaws.org/usa/louisiana/lanews22.htm
Boy, guess I'll really have to cut back on my public gay sex. Um, I mean...yeah.
