| Democrats are actually the party of "small government," at least where individual liberties are concerned. |
| Gov. Sam Brownback created the Office of the Repealer to recommend the elimination of out-of-date, unreasonable and burdensome state laws that build up in any bureaucracy over time.
That would be the “criminal sodomy” statute, which prohibits same-sex couples from engaging in oral or anal sex. The law was rendered unenforceable nearly a decade ago by a United States Supreme Court ruling, but it remains enshrined in the state’s legal code.
But on Friday, when Mr. Brownback, a conservative Republican, released a list of 51 laws to recommend to the Legislature for repeal, the sodomy statute was not among them.
Source: "Kansas Law on Sodomy Stays on Books Despite a Cull" By A.G. SULZBERGER NY Times - January 20, 2012 |
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| Right wing nut jobs are all for government keeping their hands out of the top 1%'s pockets and for letting corporations do whatever they want, but when it comes to keeping the government out of our personal lives, the GOP would like nothing better than to sit in our bedrooms with us and instruct what we can and cannot do. How did we let this happen? | Linda Denton |
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