Coming soon to a bedroom near you: the Montana Republican party

by: Jay Stevens

Tue Jun 29, 2010 at 09:12:00 AM MST

Homosexual Acts

We support the clear will of the people of Montana expressed by legislation to keep homosexual acts illegal.

Igor Volsky:

But the Montana Supreme Court struck down the State's sodomy law in 1997 and ruled that the law violates the State constitutional right to privacy....

In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court found in Lawrence v. Texas that Texas' "Homosexual Conduct" law - a measure outlawing oral and anal sex - unconstitutional. The Court ruled that the Texas statute "making it a crime for two persons of the same sex to engage in certain intimate sexual conduct violates the Due Process Clause." (pdf) "The liberty protected by the Constitution allows homosexual persons the right to choose to enter upon relationships in the confines of their homes and their own private lives and still retain their dignity as free persons," the Court ruled in a 6-3 ruling.

Apparently, Montana Republicans want to strip the state's gays and lesbians of both their dignity and freedom. So much for the Constitution, and so much for liberty.

You know, when it's relatively harmless crazy stuff - like the obsession with the United Nations - it's fun and games. But this? Criminalizing private, intimate acts between consenting adults? Criminalizing sexual acts not pre-approved of by right-wing conservatives? You know where this is heading. Count me out.

Update: Just saw that jhwygirl wrote about this last night. What she said.