Kinzer says the law is unenforceable and no one is being harmed by it.
That quote is the problem with this country. It saddens me to even think about it.
What law is not harming anyone. It is the state of Kansas law that makes gay sex illegal. The supreme court ruled that the Texas law is not constitutional. Yet states with the law must vote to repeal it off the books. I am sad to say as a straight person that my state feels the need to symbolically shun a wide swath of their citizens. I can only speculate that the keep it so that at some point in time they can use it against gay marriage in this state.
The law limits sex acts between gay and lesbian partners. A 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a similar law in Texas indirectly nullified the Kansas law, but the Legislature must vote to repeal it.
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In sweeping language, the Court said the Constitution protects the right of gay people to form intimate relationships and ""retain their dignity as free persons."" Gay people, the Court said, have the same right to ""define one's concept of existence, of meaning, or the universe, and of the mystery of human life,"" that heterosexuals do. The Bowers decision, the Court said, ""demeans the lives of homosexual persons.""
Since 1986, lower courts have relied on Bowers v. Hardwick to take away or limit custody to gay parents and to uphold firing or refusing to hire gay people. Bowers has frequently been invoked in legislative debates as a reason not to protect gay people from discrimination.
ACLU on Ruling on Texas' Law