Sodomy

Tehran Criminal Court convicted and sentenced two men to execution after discovering a home video of them engaging in consensual sex. On June 9, 2011 Iran Student News Agency reported that three LGBT individuals had been executed in Iran for committing sodomy. In May 2012, Human Rights Activists News Agency reported that four men were convicted of rape of a young boy and executed immediately. However, in an interview with Human Rights Activists News Agency, a close family member, aware of the…

WTF Sodomy? Therapist Dan: “Is there anything else from your childhood you’d like to reference in our session today?” Me: “Hmmm. I don’t know. I think we discussed just about everything.” Therapist Dan: “Maybe something from elementary school or about your marriage?” I was bullied plenty in elementary school especially in my special Ed. sixth grade math class. The bullies were Kevin and Patrick. Kevin reminded me of a Down syndrome bulldog with a lumpy clean-shaven head and Patrick reminded me…

court was of the opinion that the Clause of Due process does not declare as a constitutional or fundamental right. Furthermore, he states that there is nowhere in the standard review of the law of Texas that homosexuality to be appropriate or portray sodomy to be a fundamental right. The Court leaves untouched it is central conclusion when it overrules the outcome of Bowers. He also remarks that the decision to follow Bowers will have far-reaching implications beyond the case, as his conclusion…

sodomy, the first step to legalizing same-sex activities. During the 1970s, the Canadian government failed with the litigation of same-sex marriage, and the Supreme Court of Canada began to claim the idea of them being policymakers, but most importantly, in 1977, Quebec was the first province to make it illegal to discriminate against an individual’s sexual orientation. The Canadian Charter of Right and Freedom began to create equality norms in 1982. Although many events had taken place…

unnatural and taboo , therefore most individuals did not publicize their sexual identities. Homosexuality specifically, has been an identity that has faced a lot of criticism politically and socially because it is correlated with acts of sodomy (even though sodomy can be committed by heterosexuals). Homosexuality is defined as the romantic or sexual attraction between two individuals of the same sex. This fear of the “abnormality” of a sexual relationship between…

were both seen as degenerate and in need of condemnation and punishment. I found this incredibly interesting because Sodom is not alluded to for these purposes today, at least in my experience. Sodom and sodomy, tend to have legal air to them (as well as religious, of course), because of anti-sodomy laws. This is particularly…

Tennessee William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is play about truthfulness, centering on the family’s deception of Big Daddy and his cancer; however, Brick’s struggle with truth remains the largest struggle within the play. After pleading for real, honest conversation and no more mendacity, Big Daddy forces Brick to acknowledge that his disgust, which he has blamed on their family and the lies that he as believed for so long, has nothing to do with the people around him but with himself. Brick’s…

It wasn’t only but a little over fifteen years later when the Lawrence v. Texas case was brought upon the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of a anti sodomy state of Texas statute. This was the biggest landmark case for the LGBT community since the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick case, and it certainly started the turnaround for what is now and still the road to equality for homosexuality. II. Case Background…

Morality Wars alone explores many different views on sodomy in particular, but at its core is the relation to sexual desire and love. In Islamic society in the 1560’s, love and desire were one in the same, and with it came the practice of sodomy. These actions only served as a characteristic in religious settings. The practices were not specific to one class or family. Instead, the idea of a sexual…

England’s origins all the way to modern day. It was condemned in the Bible , and sodomy (the act of homosexual sex, or other sexual acts not for procreation) was made illegal in the 15th century , punishable by death until the mid-1800s. Yet, there are records of homosexuals throughout England 's history. Kings , actors , members of the upper echelons of society, all were seen in homosexual relations, committing acts of sodomy. In the Victorian era, there are many famous examples of homosexual…