Matthew Limon Update
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I generally neither read Salon nor link to it. Like many people I find their “brief commercial” approach annoying.
But they have a piece on Matthew Limon, the teenage boy sentenced to 17 years for performing oral sex (or, as Kansas calls it, “statutory rape”) on another boy. Had the sex been with a girl, Limon would have fallen under the Kansas “Romeo and Juliet” statute and received no more than 15 months. (In case you forgot, Kansas recently reaffirmed its status as one of the worst bigot states in the country.)
This may be the most underreported anti-gay story out there. You cannot hear the facts and the law and not want to scream.
Here’s the Salon link; here’s my prior post about Limon.
Hat tip to How Appealing.
But they have a piece on Matthew Limon, the teenage boy sentenced to 17 years for performing oral sex (or, as Kansas calls it, “statutory rape”) on another boy. Had the sex been with a girl, Limon would have fallen under the Kansas “Romeo and Juliet” statute and received no more than 15 months. (In case you forgot, Kansas recently reaffirmed its status as one of the worst bigot states in the country.)
This may be the most underreported anti-gay story out there. You cannot hear the facts and the law and not want to scream.
Here’s the Salon link; here’s my prior post about Limon.
Hat tip to How Appealing.
Posted by KipEsquire on
25 April 2005
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