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Twelve states still ban sodomy a decade after U.S. Supreme Court ruling
BATON ROUGE, La. — A dozen states still have anti-sodomy laws on the books more that 10 years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled they are unconstitutional.
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Louisiana House kills bill to repeal unconstitutional sodomy law
BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana House has overwhelmingly rejected a repeal of the state’s unconstitutional anti-sodomy law.
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UN condemns Brunei law that calls for death by stoning for gay sex
The United Nations Human Rights office has condemned a revised penal code in Brunei which calls for the death penalty for numerous offenses, including same-sex sexual activity, and introduces stoning to death as the specific method of execution for crimes of a sexual nature.
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La. House committee supports repealing ‘crimes against nature’ gay sex law
BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana House committee has narrowly agreed to advance a bill that would repeal an unconstitutional state law prohibiting intercourse between two people of the same sex.
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Va. legislature moves to strike sodomy ban from state code
RICHMOND, Va. — More than a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down sodomy bans across the nation, the Virginia House of Delegates on Thursday voted unanimously to eliminate its ban on oral and anal sex — even between consenting married couples — from the state code.
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India’s law minister: Government likely to review anti-gay sex law
NEW DELHI — India’s law minister said Thursday that the government has not abandoned efforts to make homosexuality legal, and that the country must take swift action to challenge a Supreme Court decision banning same-sex relations.
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Supreme Court won’t hear Cuccinelli’s appeal to reinstate sodomy law
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Courtwon’t hear an appeal of a lower court ruling striking down Virginia’s anti-sodomy law.
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La. House Speaker won’t seek repeal of unconstitutional sodomy law
BATON ROUGE, La. — House Speaker Chuck Kleckley says he won’t seek a repeal of an unconstitutional anti-sodomy law from Louisiana’s criminal statutes.
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Sodomy, evolution, abortion: Louisiana holds on to unenforceable laws
BATON ROUGE, La. — The East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s recent use of an unconstitutional law to arrest gay men who weren’t doing anything illegal might not have happened if state lawmakers had stripped the statute from the state’s law books once it was thrown out.
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U.S. Supreme Court denies Cuccinelli’s request for stay on Va. sodomy law
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request by Virginia Attorney General and GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli to put on hold a lower court ruling that nullified a sweeping anti-sodomy state law.