Is homosexuality illegal?

[the nature boy]

Looks like it's going to be if you live in Dayton, Tennessee. It is reported that all 2 homosexual residents are packing (pardon the pun) as we speak.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1546-2004Mar17.html

 

[TheProject]

Guess moving to Dayton's out for ya, huh?

 

[the nature boy]

Guess moving to Dayton's out for ya, huh?

Heeeyyyyyoooooooooooooooooooooo!!

 

[danielson]

someone post the article pleese

but im guessing this is a really small town out somewhere, and the local mayor is afraid it might be contagious or something...i know a lot of people who honestly think it is

 

[Y_lifter]

Many juristictions still have Sodomy on the books as illegal..

 

[TheProject]

Heeeyyyyyoooooooooooooooooooooo!!

lol...you had to know that was coming...

 

[PHATchik]

Sigh. It's Tennessee....we're special like that.

 

[the nature boy]

Many juristictions still have Sodomy on the books as illegal..

yeah but those laws are dated back to the 1800's or early 1900's.

 

[jerkbox]

post the article assnuts.

 

[from zero]

amp pharm! Get out of Tennessee bro!

 

[the nature boy]

post the article assnuts.

LOL, actually it's in Rhea County. Sounds like a real swingin' town.


DAYTON, Tenn. - The county that was the site of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" over the teaching of evolution is asking lawmakers to amend state law so the county can charge homosexuals with crimes against nature.


The Rhea County commissioners approved the request 8-0 Tuesday.

Commissioner J.C. Fugate, who introduced the measure, also asked the county attorney to find a way to enact an ordinance banning homosexuals from living in the county.

"We need to keep them out of here," Fugate said.

The vote was denounced by Matt Nevels, president of the Chattanooga chapter of Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.

"That is the most farfetched idea put forth by any kind of public official," Nevels said. "I'm outraged."

Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Texas' sodomy laws as a violation of adults' privacy.

Rhea County is one of the most conservative counties in Tennessee. It holds an annual festival commemorating the 1925 trial at which John T. Scopes was convicted of teaching evolution. The verdict was thrown out on a technicality. The trial became the subject of the play and movie "Inherit the Wind."

In 2002, a federal judge ruled unconstitutional the teaching of a Bible class in the public schools.

 

[PHATchik]

It's also illegal in some or all parts of Tennessee to have sex in positions other than the missionary position. Think about all the people committing crimes....

 

[jerkbox]

wonderful.

why do I feel like this country is taking huge steps backwards as of late?

it's unreal.

 

[TheProject]

amp pharm! Get out of Tennessee bro!

lol, nicely done...anyone else we can pick on with this?

 

[strongsmartsexy]

Sigh. It's Tennessee....we're special like that.

Yeah, you can't be homosexual, but you can marry your 13 year old cousin.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

Many juristictions still have Sodomy on the books as illegal..

Is that illegal for hetero's too or just the homosexuals?

 

[Code]

Most states have laws against sodomy.

So sorta-kinda it's illegal.

 

[WODIN]

Shouldn't they first back up and outlaw incest?

 

[Razorguns]

make up your minds. some marry them. some will charge you if you lick carpet or suck dick.

will the supreme court get off their asses and hear this case already? That's how gov't works. Just keep bouncing it around courts taht way no one has to officially "decide" on the issue.

 

[the nature boy]

Most states have laws against sodomy.

So sorta-kinda it's illegal.

again, the laws you are talking about were created in the 1800's and early 1900's.

 

[alien amp pharm]

amp pharm! Get out of Tennessee bro!

LOL

dick

 

[alien amp pharm]

I know there's a lot of jokes on here, but in all seriousness it all depends where you are at in Tennessee. Places where Phatchick & I live are nice populated areas where everybody gets along for the most part. However there are certain places/counties I would not want to be in if I were homosexual and likewise some if I were black. It all depends on where you're at as to how the local people are.

 

[alien amp pharm]

by the way, Phatchik's hometown is one of those incest places you spoke of.

 

[PHATchik]

I know there's a lot of jokes on here, but in all seriousness it all depends where you are at in Tennessee. Places where Phatchick & I live are nice populated areas where everybody gets along for the most part. However there are certain places/counties I would not want to be in if I were homosexual and likewise some if I were black. It all depends on where you're at as to how the local people are.

Hell, the city where my university is located is like No. 2 and or No. 3 city in the nation for the homosexuality.

 

[alien amp pharm]

Hell, the city where my university is located is like No. 2 and or No. 3 city in the nation for the homosexuality.

That's just a rumor. No matter where you go people will say that about a local city.

I was at a professor's house last weekend and he & his wife has traveled a lot and said that it is indeed the case.

 

[PHATchik]

That's just a rumor. No matter where you go people will say that about a local city.

I was at a professor's house last weekend and he & his wife has traveled a lot and said that it is indeed the case.

With JC, it's probably the case.

 

[Longhorn85]

Those old sodomy laws are coming off of most state law books and are rarely enforced. I do think that there will be a backlash however, on this Gay Marriage issue being forced upon us by the Courts in Mass and the Mayor in SF and elsewhere. That's what we are seeing in Tennessee.

Bush will ensure that this remains a campaign issue. Looks like the dems can't count on losing Tennessee again.

I wonder how most Floridians feel about this subject?