Military considering legalizing sodomy

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The U.S. Defense Department is considering the legalization of sodomy between consenting adults of the same and opposite sexes:

nytimes.com/2005/04/21/politics/21sodomy.html

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The office of the general counsel at the Pentagon has proposed decriminalizing consensual sodomy among adults . . . .

Under Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, it is a crime to engage in “unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex,” even with mutual consent.

The changes proposed by the Pentagon’s lawyers would narrow the definition to prohibit acts of sodomy with a person under age 16 or acts “committed by force.” . . .

While the change would not alter the military’s policy against gay men and lesbians in uniform, advocates for gay rights said that recent court decisions and the proposed changes to the military code could have broader implications for gay men and lesbians in the armed forces. . . .
 
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