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Baton Rouge, La., cops arresting gay men for private consensual sex
BATON ROUGE, La. — At least a dozen men since 2011, the most recent on July 18, have been arrested in East Baton Rouge, La., under the state’s unenforceable “crimes against nature” anti-sodomy law.
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Va. AG launches ‘child predators’ website to build support for sodomy laws
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has launched a website to build support for his fight to keep the state’s sodomy laws on the books, and to attack Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe.
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Jamaican gay rights activist seeking changes to anti-sodomy law
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A gay rights activist got his first court hearing Tuesday on his effort to bring a constitutional challenge to Jamaica’s nearly 150-year-old colonial-era law that bans sex between men.
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Va. AG wants U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate sodomy law
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Virginia’s anti-sodomy law, arguing that a lower court misinterpreted the scope of the justices’ 2003 decision invalidating a similar law in Texas.
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Jamaica church leaders rally, protest efforts to repeal anti-sodomy law
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Several church pastors in Jamaica led a revival meeting Sunday to oppose efforts to overturn the Caribbean country’s anti-sodomy law and turn back what they see as increasing acceptance of homosexuality.
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Grenada senator urges new look at anti-sodomy laws
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada — The president of Grenada’s Senate says the Caribbean island should reconsider its laws prohibiting sex between men.
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Montana governor signs bill to strike down obsolete sodomy law
HELENA, Mont. — An obsolete law deeming gay sex as deviant — akin to bestiality — was stricken from Montana code Thursday, prompting gay rights activists to say they hope that full legal equality may be close at hand.
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Montana governor Steve Bullock to sign bill decriminalizing gay sex
HELENA, Mont. — Gov. Steve Bullock will sign into law a bill that decriminalizes gay sex 16 years after the Montana Supreme Court ruled the law criminalizing gay sex unconstitutional, and ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws nationwide.
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Texas Senate committee votes to repeal state’s anti-gay sodomy law
AUSTIN, Texas — The Senate Criminal Justice Committee voted on Wednesday to repeal the state’s anti-gay sodomy law, a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional.
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Bill to decriminalize gay sex in Montana hailed on passing
HELENA, Mont. — The woman who led the court battle to strike down a Montana law that made gay sex illegal knows that having the unconstitutional law struck from the books is a symbolic act.