Chrysoprasus wrote:An example of why this bothers me even further: in a recent case in the news a little girl was raped and sodomized. I consider this two different crimes. Now it isn't and the man will get sentenced based on rape instead of serving the extra time a charge of sodomy would have gotten him, thanks to gays who can't seem to figure out that penises and vaginas go together and insist everyone else get confused about it too. This makes me sick. That girl sufferered enough in a rape, then to be sodomized on top of that and have it not considered as an additional crime...
The legal and dictionary definition has always been and always will be:
sod·om·y
sod·om·y (sod??-me) noun
1.Anal copulation of one male with another.
2.Anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex.
3.Copulation with an animal.
[Middle English sodomie, from Old French, from Sodome, Sodom, from Latin Sodoma, from Greek, from Hebrew s’dom.]
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This definition is the same used in the Texas Sodomy Statute and since Texas does not and has not enforced this law where heterosexuals are concerned and only selectively where gays are concerned is one reason the Supreme Court declared these laws uncontitutional.
I am 60 and attended public schools in California and Colorado and never was any group of students in any level of school paired off boy/girl for any classes. The first and only organization I was a member of that paired off the sexes was the Southern Baptist Church.
I agree with Crystal that it is ludicrous to pair children so they can play house at school. Kids need to be kids as long as they can. Parenting classes should be taught in college or in church, not in public schools.