Tag Archives: sodomy

VIRGINIA: Ken “Sodomy” Cuccinelli Trails In Just Released Gubernatorial Poll

Virginia state Attorney General Ken “Sodomy” Cuccinelli is trailing Democrat Terry McAuliffe in a gubernatorial poll released today. McAuliffe has a 48 – 42 percent lead over Republican State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in the race to become Virginia’s next governor, according to today’s Quinnipiac University poll, the first survey in this race among voters likely to vote in the …

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Fischer: Sodomy Is An Ugly Word

But keep saying it! It upsets the gays!

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Coach Dave: Stop Sodomizing Me

Right Wing Watch has a partial transcript of the latest from anti-gay crackpot Coach Dave: “The worst part of it is,” Daubenmire laments, “the left has sodomized men. I’m not talking about physically sodomizing them; I’m talking about stealing men’s manhood. Through what? Through ridicule and through name-calling and through court attacks. Men, godly men, Christian men are afraid to …

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LOUISIANA: Cops Arrest Gay Men For Consensual Sex Under Sodomy Laws

Baton Rouge cops have been conducting stakeouts in a public park and have arrested gay men for agreeing to have consensual sex back in their own homes. The Baton Rouge Advocate details one such recent arrest. An undercover East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputy was staking out Manchac Park about 10 a.m. one day this month when a slow-moving sedan …

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John Fugelsang On “The Cooch”

(Via David Badash)

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The View Cast Rips Ken Cuccinelli

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VIRGINIA: AG Ken Cuccinelli Launches Site For Return To Anti-Sodomy Laws

Caitlin Dickson writes at the Daily Beast: If you vote Ken Cuccinelli for Virginia governor, he’ll keep your children safe from sexual predators by making all oral and anal sex—between everyone, even married couples—a felony that carries a sentence of a year in prison. The state’s attorney general and Republican nominee for governor recently announced a campaign pledge to reinstate …

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At Iowa City Pride

Via this Instagram account. (Tipped by JMG reader Cheryl)

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MONTANA: Sodomy No Longer Illegal

Montana’s governor has signed the bill repealing the state’s ban on sodomy. When Montana Gov. Steve Bullock signed Senate Bill 107 decriminalizing gay sex, cheers erupted in the Capitol’s Rotunda. It had been 16 years after the state Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional and 24 years after gay rights activists began their fight to take government out of the …

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Montana House Repeals Sodomy Ban

Zack Ford has the news at Think Progress: “Just now, the Montana House held its third and final vote on SB 107, a bill to repeal the state’s unconstitutional sodomy law. The final vote was 64-36, meaning there were still 36 lawmakers who believes that gay sex should remain criminal under law.”  The Montana Senate repealed the ban in January …

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Federal Court Refuses Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli’s Bid To Uphold Ban On Sodomy

The Fourth District Court of Appeals has slapped down Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s last ditch ploy to keep sodomy illegal. Via Washington Blade: In an action that surprised some court observers, the order says none of the court’s judges requested a poll among themselves to determine which, if any of them, favored Cuccinelli’s request for an en banc rehearing …

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Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli Asked: Have You Or Your Staffers Committed Sodomy?

This week Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli filed yet another federal appeal in support of his state’s ban on sodomy.  But his campaign won’t respond to a Mother Jones inquiry as to whether Cucinnelli or his staffers have ever committed sodomy themselves. Cuccinelli, who is running to be Virginia’s next governor, recently petitioned a federal court to reverse its ruling …

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VIRGINIA: AG Ken Cuccinelli Asks Appeals Court To Uphold Sodomy Ban

Last month I reported: Over the objections of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (who is running for governor), yesterday a federal appeals court overturned Virginia’s ban on sodomy. The ruling arose from the conviction of a man who had solicited oral sex from a 17 year-old girl.  The appeals court said that the state should prosecute unlawful sex between adults and …

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Feds Overturn Virginia’s Sodomy Law

Over the objections of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (who is running for governor), yesterday a federal appeals court overturned Virginia’s ban on sodomy. The majority ruled that Virginia’s “Crimes Against Nature” anti-sodomy provision is unconstitutional in light of a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidating state laws that make sexual activity between consenting adults crimes. “It is shameful that Virginia …

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