The Supreme Court struck down Texas’s sodomy law in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas, and most people understood that ruling to apply to the 12 other states, including Virginia, that still had sodomy laws on their books....
>>>The Supreme Court struck down Texas’s sodomy law in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas, and most people understood that ruling to apply to the 12 other states, including Virginia, that still had sodomy laws on their books.
Among those people was Virginia’s attorney general, Jerry W. Kilgore. In an interview with The Washington Post the day the Lawrence decision was issued, the paper said, Mr. Kilgore “expressed disappointment with the ruling, which he said invalidates a state statute banning oral and anal sex between consenting gay and heterosexual couples.”
Last month, Mr. MacDonald’s lawyers asked the United States Supreme Court to hear his case and decide whether the Virginia law still stands after Lawrence.
read more about this intricate issue in the New York Times article linked below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/us/11bar.html
