Lawrence vs. Texas - Awesome!

TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas cannot punish illegal underage sex more harshly if it involves homosexual conduct, the state's highest court ruled unanimously Friday in a case watched by national groups on both sides of the gay rights debate.

The Supreme Court sided with convicted sex offender Matthew R. Limon. In 2000, he was sentenced to 17 years and two months in prison because, at 18, he performed a sex act on a 14-year-old boy. Had one of them been a girl, Limon could have faced only 15 months behind bars.

The high court ordered Limon to be resentenced as if the law treated illegal gay sex and illegal straight sex the same, and it struck language from the law that resulted in the different treatment.

Two issues here. One is that the crazy Christian freaks wanted to make sure this kid goes to jail for 17 years, when if it had been a 14 year old girl, he would likely have had probation or jail for less than 4 years.

So, we see that same-sex relations cannot be treated differently then opposite sex relations, which falls right in line with the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence vs. Texas from last year.

I would also point out that back in high school, I knew plenty of guys in the 17-18 age range that were sleeping with freshmen of the 14 year old variety. Was that a good thing? Probably not, but it's funny how all these crazy legislators forget what it was like to be in that age range. In those cases, and in the case referenced in the story, it was consensual, and in my view it's the parents who need to take control of the situation - not the courts. In either case, sentencing a kid to 17 years is re-god-damn-diculous. Good for the courts to slap down the bat-shit crazy Christians again.

If they applied that evenly to hill billys in the red neck states, heck even in the suburbs of cities like Dallas, they could be sending otherwise good kids to the slammer for doing exactly what biology is telling them to do.

He and M.A.R. lived at a group home for the developmentally disabled. In court, an official described M.A.R. as mildly mentally retarded and Limon as functioning at a slightly higher level but not as an 18-year-old.

How's that? The kids are "mildly retarded" and still they want to send them to prison for 17 years.

I hate Kansas and pretty much everyone in that state. All crazy hypocritical sheep fuckers.