SODOMY LAW AND 2021?

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 is still treated to be applied to gay people. 

Sodomy is illegal in these places - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and South Carolina, and three states specifically targeting their statutes of same-sex relations only: Kansas, Kentucky, and Texas.

The law is still illegal in 16 states of the USA and people are being arrested for the crime against nature. It might not seem like a problem to some but some cases are alarmingly recent. 

Legislators in Maryland are debating this session whether to repeal sodomy laws in the state. According to an analysis by the Boston Sun editorial board: “Maryland allows for up to 10 years in prison and a $1,000 fine upon criminal conviction for various acts, including bestiality setting the intimate relations with animals aside, there is no reason for the state to criminalize sexual acts between consenting adults.

It's 2021 and the law is still in the books and in use by government officials and others. But If you are arrested or harassed based on your sexual orientation or a state's sodomy law, you should talk to a local criminal defense or civil rights attorney. An attorney can help you protect your rights and successfully navigate the justice system.

Knowing the era we are living in and still having such restrictions on our identity, what are your opinions on it?


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