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One of Trump's potential Supreme Court nominees thinks gay people should be jailed for having sex
One of Trump's potential Supreme Court nominees thinks gay people should be jailed for having sex
After Trump said this week that he wouldn't appoint a Supreme Court justice to attempt to roll back same-sex marriage, but one of his prospective picks has actually made some pretty disturbing comments. Despite President-elect Trump saying that same-sex marriage is "settled", he also said he wanted to appoint justices who would challenge the 1973 abortion rights ruling Roe v Wade.
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"One of those conservative judges is William H Pryor Jr, who has in the past suggested that same-sex couples should be punished with jail for having sex in their own homes." How do you even catch a gay couple for doing this???
That type of law isn't usually enforced. But, if they wanted to and the political climate were bad enough, they could do a sting operation on a gay couple, I guess. The same way they do drug busts, now. Pop into the house in the middle of the night and catch two men or two women in bed together. Find (or plant) a condom in the room. Don't even need that much if the political climate is that bad. Two people of the same sex^ in bed together would be enough.
^I'm using sex here deliberately. This is not a world where someone's gender would be taken into account.
You may want to read the circumstances and history behind Lawrence v Texas, because it illustrates exactly how anti-sodomy laws can be invoked. In that case a neighbor called the police on a neighbor and police claimed they were engaged in oral sex and arrested them.
I knew Roe v Wade and Obergefell were at risk, but not this one. 😓
I don't honestly believe these laws are designed with the intention of actually being applied, excepting maybe a few cases once in a while to make a point. I think the real purpose of this type of law is establishing what is socially acceptable and creating a particular climate.
Compare with the trans bathroom laws. These are obviously unenforceable on a routine basis. But what's really being legislated is not truly whether trans people are free to use the bathroom but whether trans people have the right to be so in public.
This would probably be the same, not to stop gay couples to have sex in their homes, but just to signal that being gay is not ok and that that's the dominant viewpoint in society and perpetuating other more common forms of oppression.
Ah that makes sense, I had no idea that was a potential goal. Damn