High Court Limits Anti-Sodomy Laws
From Times Wire Reports
The state’s highest court upheld two anti-sodomy laws but limited enforcement to cases in which specific sex acts occur in public or are not consensual.
Gay activists said the Supreme Judicial Court ruling clarified that anti-sodomy laws don’t apply to private, consensual sex.
“It really takes all the sting out of these laws” and puts the burden on the state to prove that the conduct was public, said Jennifer Levi, an attorney for Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, which brought the case.
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