Kansas Court Upholds Tougher Sentences For Gay Sex

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/01/013004limonUpheld.htm

one step forward--two steps back!

The Kansas Court of Appeals Friday upheld a 17-year prison sentence handed a teenager convicted of having sex with another teen.

Matthew Limon was 18 years old when he was convicted in 2000 of having consensual oral sex with a 14-year-old boy at a private group home for people with developmental disabilities in Paola.

Limon never denied the sex nor that it was with a minor. But, that he would have served a maximum of only 15 months in jail under the Kansas law had the other teenager been female.

[MuseRider]

1. Great

leave it to my state to drag us kicking and screaming into the dark ages. Sorry people, some of us try but nobody is listening.

[NashVegas]

2. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=339058

Bad! Bad mod!

:P

[LeftCoast]

3. Activist court?

Based on the recent SC ruling this is clearly a bad decision. I guess Repukes only care about activist courts when they're active on the left.

:eyes:

[northofdenali]

4. Bet Dorothy wishes she'd never clicked those red shoes......

Kansas still shows itself to be one of the most repressive, far-right states in the nation. Don't they still ban books in libraries?

Instead of repression, maybe they should try teaching themselves to think.

[donco6]

5. I'm embarrassed to admit I'm from this state

I can't even add a comment to this, it's so preposterous.

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Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline in his submission to the court claimed that the state should be able to punish gay teenagers more harshly under the "Romeo and Juliet" law because doing so would encourage heterosexual teenagers to marry.

[Moderator]

6. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=339058