it's amazing how people can get so worked up

[re0430]

a guy was locked up on the sodomy "snag" last year....3 years in PRISON.....he's gonna get his fill of sodomy in there, but we don't have enough room and they're putting someone who bothered NO ONE in jail? all because christians find it appauling (bet they don't all find it appauling behind closed doors)

One of the major theories in crime control explains that laws are made from a group's interest. Obviously living in the south, there's deep rooted baptist beliefs, and living there, there will be a lot more laws reflecting those values. I dont' think anyone can argue that. I think it's kind of crazy to put someone in jail for sodomy... because I guarantee every guy or girl on this board is guilty of it. I guess there are exceptions for everything, though. But spending 25,000 dollars a year to house an offender like that seems almost pointless, though it does reinforce the state's interest in banning and getting rid of acts like that there.

I think *** relationships in general are moving forward, even at a slow pace. In 1986 they were deemed unconstitutional in Bowers v. Hardwick. I got interested in this when you brought it up in the other post and found in Texas v. Lawrence that all state sodomy laws were ruled unconstitutional. Then I looked at some of the criminal laws here in PA and there were sodomy laws... but the book I'm reading from is from 2003, the same year as the case. So I'm wondering if your state still uses them if you said it was last year?

[birdman86]

ive had no hard feelings fizz, ur still the man, and u r intitled to ur opinion, just like everyone else here, and u right, u do have to learn to turn the other cheek on things, its hard yes, and i screw up, man do i ever screw up because no one is perfect no matter what religion they r, we all screw up, but its just a matter of how u see it, and if u know that u screw up....try and change it, doesnt matter if u r in a religion or not, if u just try to work at what u do wrong and fix it, like say u dont wanna smoke anymore(just an example) taking the incintive is what its all about. honestly i think that is what the world needs, for people to clean up there acts....and im done my rabbling, thanks guys cody

[Bluejayde]

you're from missouri......come on down to the bible belt and tell me what you think about religion.....it's called the bible belt for a reason...highest church per capita of any region, some of the most close minded people on earth, some of the least educated people on anything but their ABC's......

Don't assume that just because I live here now, I've never been anywhere else. I was born in Germany, and I've lived all over the US, INCLUDING ALABAMA. You're not the only one who's gone through shit in your life. If sympathy is what you're looking for, I'm sorry. But you're going about things the wrong way. You lashing out at things you can't understand isn't any better than racists lashing out at black people, or homo-phobes lashing out at gays.
We need to change the world, but this isn't the way bro.

[Bluejayde]

I just wish people worried about themselves more, and that would fix things more effectively than trying to fix everyone else......and this would fix the government....if you have 70 straight people and 30 *** people, fix it so that if all the straights vote one way and all the gays vote another, then you have a 50/50 tie.....not a 70/30 win for the straights......and let them debate their points before passing a crazy law that can ruin an innocent person's life
scale the votes somehow

That is rediculous. So maybe white males should be allowed to have a heavier vote in anything related to the workplace, since it's the hardest for them to get a job?