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onefixedstarHere's the newest bit of insanity. The key paragraph:
The Kansas Court of Appeals for a second time upheld the 17-year prison sentence of a youth who, at age 18, engaged in oral sex with a 14-year-old boy. For the same crime, if it had involved an act between an 18-year-old male and a 14-year-old girl, the sentence would have been 13 to 15 months.
Note the reference to "second time." That's because the U.S. Supreme Court ordered them once before to reconsider their decision, apparently to no effect. According to the Kansas Court of Appeals, the law is reasonable because it's reasonable to believe that differential treatment will prevent the gradual deterioration of the sexual morality supported by the majority of citizens in Kansas.
One of the arguments made was that the traditional values of the citizens of Kansas include encouraging people to have children in order "to furnish new workers, soldiers, and other useful members of society." No mention of punishment for all those childfree-by-choice or mixed sterile/fertile couples out there, of course.
I'm not quite sure what to add to this, except to encourage people to keep sending in those donations to the ACLU. Anyone who's interested can read the full decision here.
The Kansas Court of Appeals for a second time upheld the 17-year prison sentence of a youth who, at age 18, engaged in oral sex with a 14-year-old boy. For the same crime, if it had involved an act between an 18-year-old male and a 14-year-old girl, the sentence would have been 13 to 15 months.
Note the reference to "second time." That's because the U.S. Supreme Court ordered them once before to reconsider their decision, apparently to no effect. According to the Kansas Court of Appeals, the law is reasonable because it's reasonable to believe that differential treatment will prevent the gradual deterioration of the sexual morality supported by the majority of citizens in Kansas.
One of the arguments made was that the traditional values of the citizens of Kansas include encouraging people to have children in order "to furnish new workers, soldiers, and other useful members of society." No mention of punishment for all those childfree-by-choice or mixed sterile/fertile couples out there, of course.
I'm not quite sure what to add to this, except to encourage people to keep sending in those donations to the ACLU. Anyone who's interested can read the full decision here.
