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SODOMY LAW AND 2021?

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In the 19th and 20th centuries, sodomy laws started to use as secondary charges in cases of sexual assault, sex with children, public sex, and sex with animals. Most of those cases involved heterosexual sex. But it began to be used in a new way, distinctly against gay people, in the late 1960s when gay rights progress starting to be made.  These laws were started to use against gay people in three ways. First, they used to limit the ability to raise children in gay people. In some states, gay people were also refused to adopt and become foster parents as well. Second, the law started to impact their career life refusing them to have a job or getting them fired. Third, the laws which have been used in public debate, to justify denying gay people equal treatment and discredit LGBT voices. Later, some of the states rewrote their sodomy law which would be only applied to gay people but not to straight ones. But in the remaining states, there were no official changes were made and the law i