June 28, 2003
SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY
Justices Extend Decision on Gay Rights and Equality (LINDAGREENHOUSE, 6/28/03, NY Times)
In an immediate application of its new protective approach to gay rights, the Supreme Court today vacated the sodomy conviction of a Kansas teenager who received a 17-year sentence for having oral sex with a younger boy. [...]
Matthew R. Limon had just turned 18 when he had consensual sex with a 14-year-old boy at the residential school for developmentally disabled youths where both were living.
Typically when something occurs like the Court's anti-sodomy ruling conservatives bemoan the slippery slope we've been placed on and the Left protests that this is nonsense. Here the Court clears the matter up by okaying sexual assault on a retarded child, placing us fairly close to the bottom of the slope right off the bat. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 28, 2003 8:44 AM