• 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Code of Alabama Sec. 13A-6-64 - Sodomy in the Second Degree.

      Includes consenting adults having oral and anal sex. But Alabama says they do not and will not prosecute people for it. Still on the books, though.

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        10 months ago

        Lawyers fucking suck. They always have to play fucking games with unspoken language. Their full sentence is:

        “do not and will not prosecute people for it…until the Comstock Act comes back into effect or the 14th Amendment no longer provides privacy protections.”

        Lawyers would weasel us out of any and all rights just because it gives them more billable hours and more casework.

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          10 months ago

          Overzealous legislators who make the laws and mandatory minimums suck first and foremost, then prosecutors and sentencing judges who do not use judicial discretion fairly and empathetically. Lots of lawyers are good people and it’s worth noting that civil rights are protected almost exclusively by lawyers.

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            10 months ago

            Lawyers have no obligation to act with empathy. There is no obligation to act fairly - because they can always twist the definition of what “is” is. I can find a thousand examples of unfair judicial actions that legally wouldn’t be considered unfair.

            Hell, Anthony Scalia said “mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.” How can that not be the definition of unfair - our SCoTUS ruled that it’s totally legal and fair to execute a factually innocent person.

            Civil rights need protection primarily because of the lawyers trying to infringe on them.

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      10 months ago

      The people of Alabama voted in an election (2014, I think) whether to keep or not the unenforceable law that forbids interracial marriage. More than 40% voted to keep it. Fuck them.