youngpapifrom518 asked:
What two people do behind closed doors, is not the governments business.My uncle told me about this and a bunch of other people,but they never gave me answers on why,the certain state laws prohibit that.I’m just wondering if someone hear can help me with that answer.
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1 Preacher // Feb 5, 2010 at 9:01 am
What you do behind closed doors is God’s business, and good lawmakers obey God.
2 Kathy Louise // Feb 8, 2010 at 1:59 am
As far as I know, there may be only one state left that makes sodomy illegal. I can’t recall if it’s Mississippi or not. I know we struck down our (Arkansas) sodomy law a few years ago. And the reason why it’s been found unconstitutional is because of just why you stated–a person has a right to privacy in their own home……as long as it consenting adults.
3 joevette // Feb 9, 2010 at 8:44 am
You are right and the laws don’t get enforced. It is like the law in my hometown where it is illegal to push a stroller down main street on Sunday or where you can only beat your wife on Sunday on the court house steps. They were so silly that they were never removed from the books.
4 Success Ink // Feb 9, 2010 at 7:48 pm
Some laws may derive from religion, but not everyone practices the same religion, so some laws make no sense what so ever, even if it is your religion, it’s up to God to judge you, and not man to.
5 rare2findd // Feb 12, 2010 at 7:44 am
Because most of those laws are archaic. And how would anyone know what you are doing in the privacy of your own home anyway, unless they are a friggen peeping Tom (which by the way is REALLY a crime). Its YOUR business not law enforcement UNLESS of course, these acts are being committed in front of others in a public setting.
People do what they want and it really is NOT anyone else’s business I say.
6 janssen411 // Feb 13, 2010 at 5:04 am
because it is believed that they are unnatural and improper forms of sexual expression and while they occur behind closed doors they can be used as blackmail against the people who engage in them but wish to keep that fact secret, And if it is is behind locked doors, and private how is it that the LEO’s have reason to know it is occuring and thus know if it needs to be stopped.
I personally subscribe to the theory that so long as I am not involved in some ones sex life i have no right to restict it.
7 James J // Feb 15, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Because it offended the moralaties of lawmakers in the Victorian era.
It was mainly used as a means to make homosexuality illegal.
8 Bevin M // Feb 16, 2010 at 11:30 pm
because America was founded by puritans. And those laws are very old, but they are so old, that I really don’t think that many law makers even really remember they are there. So really as long as you are behind closed doors, no one can arrest you for gettin’ busy.
9 bigplops // Feb 19, 2010 at 10:55 am
it doesn,t happen here in the uk,but i guess it is because the people who make the laws ,are doing these things themselves for some kind of wierd kink they probably have about breaking the law. hope that helps.lol
10 SkewsMe.com // Feb 20, 2010 at 4:35 pm
It boils down to the rules of the churches which follow their government:
The Catholic Church has known about pedophiles in its midst for 1700 years, assert former monks Richard Sipe and Patrick Wall in their 2004 375-page report, “Canonical History of Clerical Sexual Abuse.” After the abuse scandal exposed Cardinal Bernard F. Law protecting pedophiles in the Boston diocese, Pope John Paul II reassigned him to a cushy job in the Vatican, where the age of consent is 12. John Paul’s successor, Pope Benedict XVI, even went so far as to issue an order to keep all church investigations into child sexual abuse a secret before he became pontiff.
Sipe estimates that six percent of Catholic priests have sexually abused children, a statistic mirrored in a 1993 National Catholic Weekly: America report estimating that “approximately 3,000 priests, or one in 15 nationwide, are probably guilty of [sexual] misconduct.” Thomas Fox, writing in the National Catholic Reporter, estimates that the average pedophile priest molests 285 victims. The 2002 Zogby International/Le Moyne Contemporary Catholic Trends Poll Report found that one in 11 American Catholics say they have “personal knowledge” of child sexual abuse by a priest.
Elder Glenn L. Pace, Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, interviewed 60 people who had been ritually abused by church leaders, temple workers and members of the Tabernacle Choir, according to his 1990 memo on “Ritualistic Child Abuse” to the Strengthening Church Members Committee of the Mormon Church. Pace notes that “ritualistic child abuse is the most hideous of all child abuse. The basic objective is premeditated — to systematically and methodically torture and terrorize children until they are forced to dissociate.” He doesn’t “pretend to know how prevalent the problem is,…can only assume that it is expanding geometrically and [is] horrified the numbers represented by the generation who are now children and teenagers.” Photocopies of his exposé circulated like wildfire.
and the government following their religion:
Former US Senator John DeCamp “exposes the elite web of crime, satanic cults, and child sexual abuse that reaches through the highest levels of power in our society” in his 1992 book The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska writes an Amazon.com reviewer. The charges brought by DeCamp implicate the Ronald Reagan/George H.W. Bush White House. The reviewer goes on to note that “it’s interesting that former CIA director Bill Colby ambiguously acknowledged to the author that the scenario described is real, and not long thereafter Colby turned up dead under suspicious circumstances” after disappearing late April 1996. A documentary was filmed entitled “Conspiracy of Silence,” but before it was to air on Disney’s Discovery Channel in 1994, unknown members of Congress bought the rights and ordered all copies be destroyed. A lone tape survived and is now widely available online.
President Bill Clinton promised “that aggressive enforcement of federal obscenity laws by the Justice Department — particularly by the Child Exploitation and Obscenity section — will be a priority in a Clinton-Gore administration,” according to William E. Brigman in his 1997 “Politics and the Pornography Wars” for the Ohio University School of Film. Despite Clinton’s rhetoric and that of Attorney General Janet Reno’s promise to “protect our children from abuse,” the Justice Department attempted to legalize soft-core child pornography in 1993.
It’s all very hypocritical.
Statistically, more than 25% of US children are sexually abused. The creeps are everywhere from the classroom to Child Protective Services to the Homeland Security top office.
They don’t want people remembering their abuse they worked so hard to make the child forget. The False Memory Syndrome Foundation, despite attempting to discredit accounts of recovered memories in courts of law, was kind enough to include in their own newsletter that “studies report that the average age of remembering childhood incest is between 29 and 49.”
11 John S // Feb 21, 2010 at 1:38 pm
The long answer involves ancient puritantical attitudes towards sex, homophobia, and lots of other stuff.
The short answer is that no such laws are enforceable, since the U.S. Supreme Court declared that any laws regulating the sexual conduct of adults in private violate the United States Constitution in Lawrence v. Texas (2003) 539 U.S. 558. Basically, they agreed with you: it is not the government’s business.
See, you are as smart as a Supreme Court justice, and smarter than Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas, all of whom thought that the government is entitled to go into your bedroom.
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