Sodomy Laws Never Invaded Private Homes
Shreveport
Times, May 25, 2001
Box 30222, Shreveport, LA 71130
Fax: 318-459-3301
Email: letters@thetimes.com
Letters
Last year, 91,000 gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals and transgenders
descended on the French Quarter in New Orleans for the annual Southern
Decadence Festival. This event celebrates the homosexual lifestyle with
blatant, in-your-face perversion.
This kind of activity could be coming to your town. New Orleans area
legislators and homosexual activists are attempting to force their immorality
on the rest of the state. Rep. Cedric Richmond of New Orleans authored a bill
to roll back Louisiana’s 195-year-old law prohibiting sodomy.
Rep. Richmond has stated he proposed this bill because he believes in the
right of privacy. However, Louisiana’s sodomy statute has never created
"sex police" in private bedrooms. Typically, the statute has been
used to curb public sex and to limit the practice of "semi-public"
sex, such as occurs in bars, booths in bookstores and bathhouses.
There has been no public outcry regarding this law, nor have there been any
major civil rights violations because of it. Louisiana’s Supreme Court has
upheld the law as constitutional.
The philosophy "If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it" applies
here.
—Glenn C. Benfield, Shreveport
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