Christian conservative Bryan Fischer is urging states to keep
their sodomy laws on the books, even if they cannot be enforced.
“As they say, the law is a teacher, and it's wise to keep an
anti-sodomy law on the books, even if unenforceable due to judicial
tyranny, to express the state's official disapproval of that kind of
conduct,” Fischer
wrote in an American Family Association (AFA) column. “The
fact that it is against the law provides an additional reason not to
give it special legal protections in discrimination law. It's
schizophrenic to give special legal protections to behavior in one
part of your code that is illegal according to another.”
“As Antonin Scalia correctly pointed out in his dissent on
Lawrence v. Texas, sodomy was always contrary to public policy
everywhere in the United States, going back to the very beginning.
It was a felony offense in every state of the union until 1962, and
still a felony offense in the other 49 states until 1972, when the
sexual revolution started causing the moral pillars to crumble.
Sodomy is immoral, unnatural and unhealthy and should remain contrary
to public policy.”
“From a public health standpoint alone, societies should resist
the normalization of sodomy. Whether you think the human body was
designed by evolution or by the Creator, the body was clearly not
designed for the uses to which homosexuals put it. The elevated risk
of HIV/AIDS is reason enough all by itself to reject the
normalization and legalization of homosexual conduct.”
In a related story, police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as recently
as last month were enforcing the state's invalid sodomy law which
remains on the books.
(Related: Gay
men arrested for agreeing to consensual sex under Louisiana's invalid
sodomy law.)