Anti-gay bigot really likes Lawrence v. Texas now February 24, 2007
Posted by Evil Bender in News and politics, bigotry, constiutional issues, wingnuts.trackback
The attorney for a former Baptist church leader who had spoken out against homosexuality said Thursday that the minister has a constitutional right to solicit sex from an undercover policeman.
The Rev. Lonnie W. Latham had supported a resolution calling on gays and lesbians to reject their “sinful, destructive lifestyle” before his Jan. 3, 2006, arrest outside the Habana Inn in Oklahoma City.
Authorities allege that Latham asked the undercover policeman to come up to his hotel for oral sex.
Latham’s attorney, Mack Martin, filed a motion to have the misdemeanor lewdness charge thrown out, saying the Supreme Court ruled in the 2003 decision Lawrence v. Texas that it was not illegal for consenting adults to engage in private homosexual acts.
And I should add that I agree: if he wasn’t offering to pay for sex, then clearly it’s within his rights to ask for it, obvious hypocrisy not withstanding. But here’s the best part:
The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma has filed a brief alleging that Latham’s arrest also violated his right to free speech.
I bet it must gall him to have the ACLU in his corner. But this is exactly what they do: defend those whose rights may have been violated, even if that person is disgusting. I’m glad Latham’s getting his day in court, and frankly I hope he’s acquitted. He wanted sex, and there’s nothing illegal about that. Even if he was offering to pay, well, there are a lot of worse things than wanting to pay for sex. Like prying into the private sex lives of others, for example.
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