Page 3
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Bryan Fischer: The Boy Scouts are now the ‘Boy Sodomizers of America’
On his radio program Friday, American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer weighed in on Thursday’s decision by the Boy Scouts of America to drop its ban on gay scouts.
-
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down Va. sodomy laws
RICHMOND, Va. — A long-standing “Crimes against Nature” law, which criminalized anal and oral sex in Virgina, has been found unconstitutional by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
-
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: Ruling on ‘homosexual sodomy’ is easy
WASHINGTON — Noted conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told an audience at the Washington D.C.-based American Enterprise Institute that “it’s ‘easy’ to render a verdict” on same-sex marriage “when you apply the words in the Constitution as they were intended by its framers.”
-
Virginia lawmaker: ‘Sodomy is not a civil right’
WASHINGTON — Virginia Republican delegate Robert Marshall, who led the efforts to derail the judicial nomination of an openly gay Richmond prosecutor, said in an interview on CNN Thursday morning that “sodomy is not a civil right.” Marshall was defending his actions and that of fellow lawmakers and right wing christian conservative activists who opposed […]
-
Four Iranian men sentenced to death by hanging for sodomy
An Iranian court has sentenced four men from the town of Choram, in the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, to death by hanging for sodomy.
-
Iran executes ‘gangster’ for allegedly engaging in ‘unlawful’ same-sex activity
MARVDASHT, Iran — A young man described as a “gangster,” who is known only by the initials CHM, was hanged publicly in Marvdasht, Fars Province, Iran, for allegedly engaging in “sodomy” with another man.