HughGRection wrote:Homosexuality was illegal in the u.s. up until around 10 years ago. correct me if i am wrong
the majority of the population is not attracted to the same sex. So to you the thought of a man being with a man or a woman having sexual relations with a woman would be not normal, immoral, disgusting. People didn't realize that up until recently that it was not their choice to be gay or to not be. Some people still debate over this fact.
It was illegal along with all forms of sodomy in some parts of the United States until 2003. As far as I know sodomy laws were never really enforced in the United States, but I could be wrong.
Here is a list that shows the year when each state abolished sodomy laws. Those that haven't yet been abolished are still in the books, but are invalidated by the United States government.
# Alabama — All sodomy acts illegal – affects only unmarried couples. Penalty = (1 year/$1,000)
# Alaska (repealed through legislative action 1980)
# Arizona (repealed through legislative action 2001)
# Arkansas — struck down by Jegley v. Picado, 80 S.W.3d 332 (Ark. 2001)
# California (repealed through legislative action 1976)
# Colorado (repealed through legislative action 1972)
# Connecticut (repealed through legislative action 1971)
# Delaware (repealed through legislative action 1973)
# Florida — All sodomy acts illegal. Penalty = (60 days/$500)
# Georgia — struck down by Powell v. Georgia, 510 S.E.2d 18 (1998)
# Hawaii (repealed through legislative action 1973)
# Idaho — All sodomy acts illegal. Penalty = (5 years to life)
# Illinois (repealed through legislative action 1962)
# Indiana (repealed through legislative action 1976)
# Iowa (repealed through legislative action 1978)
# Kansas — Same-Sex sodomy acts illegal. Penalty = (6 months/$1,000)
# Kentucky — struck down by Commonwealth v. Wasson, 842 S.W.2d 487 (Ky. 1992)
# Louisiana — All sodomy acts illegal. Penalty = (5 years/$2,000)[25]
# Maine (repealed through legislative action 1976)
# Maryland — struck down by Williams v. State, 1998 Extra LEXIS 260, Baltimore City Circuit Court, January 14, 1999
# Massachusetts — struck down by GLAD v. Attorney General, SJC-08539 (Mass. Supreme Judicial Ct. 2002)
# Michigan – struck down by Michigan Organization for Human Rights v. Kelley in 1990. Prior law defined sodomy as a felony punishable by up to 15 years imprisonment for a first offense and up to life in prison for repeat offenders.
# Minnesota — struck down by Doe v. Ventura, No. MC 01-489, 2001 WL 543734 (Minn. Dist. Ct 2001)
# Mississippi — All sodomy acts illegal. Penalty = (10 years)
# Missouri — Same-Sex sodomy acts illegal. Penalty = (1 year/$1,000), then repealed through legislative action in 2006
# Montana — struck down by Gryczan v. Montana, 942 P.2d 112 (1997)
# Nebraska (repealed through legislative action 1978)
# Nevada (repealed through legislative action 1993)
# New Hampshire (repealed through legislative action 1975)
# New Jersey (repealed through legislative action 1979)
# New Mexico (repealed through legislative action 1975)
# New York — struck down by People v. Onofre, 415 N.E.2d 936 (N.Y. 1980) and repealed by the legislature in 2000.
# North Carolina — All sodomy acts illegal. Penalty = (10 years/discretionary fine)
# North Dakota (repealed through legislative action 1973)
# Ohio (repealed through legislative action 1974)
# Oklahoma — Same-Sex sodomy acts illegal. Penalty = (10 years)
# Oregon (repealed through legislative action 1972)
# Pennsylvania — struck down by Commonwealth v. Bonadio, 415 A.2d 47 (Pa. 1980) and repealed by the legislature in 1995.
# Rhode Island (repealed through legislative action 1998)
# South Carolina — All sodomy acts illegal. Penalty = (5 years/$500)
# South Dakota (repealed through legislative action 1977)
# Tennessee — Struck down in Campbell v. Sundquist, 926 S.W.2d 250 (1996)
# Texas — Same-Sex sodomy acts illegal. Penalty = ($500)
# Utah — All sodomy acts illegal. Penalty = (6 months/$1,000)
# Vermont (repealed through legislative action 1977)
# Virginia — All sodomy acts illegal. Penalty = (1–5 years)
# Washington (repealed through legislative action 1976)
# West Virginia (repealed through legislative action 1976)
# Wisconsin (repealed through legislative action 1983)
# Wyoming (repealed through legislative action 1977)
# District of Columbia (City Council repealed law in 1995; Congress did not veto repeal as it did the first time in 1981)
My source is wikipedia. lol
but that's a whooooooole 'nother story.
