Virginia removes state ban on sodomy

[JURIST] The Virginia House of Delegates [official website] on Thursday unanimously passed a bill [SB 14] to remove the state code's ban on oral and anal sex, a decade after it was invalidated by a US Supreme Court [official website] decision in Lawrence v. Texas [opinion]. The new legislation limits the definition of "crimes against nature" to only bestiality and incest. Sodomy is still to be used to prosecute cases involving rape, prostitution, and sexual acts involving children. The Virginia...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/03/virginia-removes-state-ban-on-sodomy.php

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