When cleaning up sounds dirty
In the case Lawrence V Texas the U.S. Supreme Court said that what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home with each other is, essentially, their business.
That case struck down a bunch of state laws that outlawed sodomy, including North Carolina GS-177.
So, to clean up the statute books, lawmakers have proposed H 100, presented here only because it made the part of me that's still a 12-year-old giggle:
ยง 14-177. Crime against nature. (a) If any person shall commit the crime against nature, with mankind or beast, he shall be punished as a Class I felon.(b) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply if the conduct engaged in under subsection (a) of this section: is not with a beast, is not unlawful under Article 27 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes, and is between mutually consenting adults in a private home, private residence, or other private abode."
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