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Bill To Repeal Kansas’ Sodomy Law Will Likely Be Ignored By Lawmakers, Senator Predicts | Last month, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) released a list of 51 laws he recommends that the legislature repeal. An obsolete state statute criminalizing sodomy was not among them and so today state LGBT groups will testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asking the legislature to eliminate the measure. Since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Lawrence v. Texas struck down anti-sodomy laws as unconstitutional, Kansas’ statute has no force and effect. Yet Republicans are determined to keep it on the books as a purely symbolic gesture of their condemnation of gay couples and a repeal bill stalled in the legislature last year. “I think people will actually have trouble voting on this again, it’s very sensitive,” State Sen. Jean Schodorf told KSN, a local NBC affiliate. She predicted yesterday that the measure will not even receive a vote in the legislature. Watch the segment:
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