My first year at UNC-Chapel Hill there was incident with our pit preacher – Gary Birdsong. His message is not limited to gay people but also includes women. All women should be in the kitchen, pregnant, & housewives and should not be receiving higher education. Long story short a woman was walking across campus in what he interpreted as appropriate clothing (long dress, heels, etc etc). When he pointed out the woman as an example of how all women should dress, she stopped walking set her bag down & stripped down to her undies then kept on walking.

She is a bit of a legend around here, I only wish I knew who she was to tell her she is my hero.

But in all fairness these people do have a right to free speech so long is it does not threaten anybody. No one here likes him and it becomes a game to try & make him freak out. Personally I think these people push more moderates to supporting gay rights.

At first they’re interesting and entertaining, but after a while they just become a part of your daily routine. The more inventive signs always gather a crowd, though.

The government can’t tell me what to eat, when to eat it. It doesn’t tell me how often to bathe, what products to use. They tell us to wear clothes, but that’s only in public, and it’s pretty obvious there is a large spectrum of different clothes that are acceptable.

I have the right to have my skin tattooed, punctured, and or branded. I can dye my hair any color I want, shave it all off, or grow it indefinitely.

They don’t tell me when to see the doctor, certainly don’t order me to have any medical procedures.
They don’t tell me where, when, or who I can hug, shake hands with, or kiss. They leave that up to me and the person(s) involved.

The only time our government gets involved in what we do with our bodies is when it is dangerous to ourselves (drugs, alcohol, suicide) and or dangerous to others(drunk driving, rape, assault,murder).

So why do people think the government not only can, but should regulate my personal sexual activities? Since when did my genitals become a controlled substance or a piece of government property?

I believe you are slightly inaccurate in your discussion of sodomy laws. Lawrence v. Texas invalidated all laws that set about to criminalize homosexual sex.

While there are some states that continue to hold those laws on their books “as a matter of principle” (or more accurately as a matter of pride in their own bigotry), they cannot be enforced nor can they be said to be “the law” – even in those states, sodomy is not a crime. Those provisions would not need to be struck down, they already have been.

Arguably, a state could maintain a sodomy law that applied to both heterosexuals and homosexuals (as some were written), but they would have to show that they were diligent in prosecuting heterosexuals and that their intent was not to intimidate homosexuals. One of the arguments against sodomy laws was that while they were not inforced, they were a tool for discrimination and implied criminalization of a class of people.

Wikipedia has a pretty good article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_States

And one unmentioned downside. Anal sex is not a requirement to be gay. Lesbians, from what I understand, don’t really bother with it at all. While anal sex is popular among gay men, there seem to be plenty of men who aren’t interested in it at all.

Yep. Some of the anti-gay group really want homosexuality to be criminalised. Criminalising heterosexual anal sex would be a consequence they welcome, but not their main objective.

The drive to criminalise anal sex has two motivations:
1. Disgust. Bumsex, eeeeewwww!
2. Political advantage: It means most of the homosexual political activists could be dealt with by locking them in in prison where they cant campaign.

The idea of ‘recriminalising sodomy’ isn’t strictly accurate – in many states, it already *is* a criminal offense – some have laws banning all anal sex, some only anal sex between same-gender people. Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi (Ten year jail time per act!), North Carolina (10yr again), Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Virginia.

But in those states, its not enforced, because the police know that if they were to try it would almost certinly result in the law being struck down in court as happened in eleven states, one of which went on to set the Lawrence vs Texas precident. Nonetheless they remain on the books. I have no wonder how long before some local police department tries to use them against someone who actually fights it in court and draws attention to these old laws.

It amazes me that people think it’s any of their business what two consenting adults do with their body parts, especially when it harms neither of them.

They’re are usually a one-week show, the only time when Southern Baptists and the GLBT organization can unite in their common dislike for loud, disturbing con-men assholes who hit bibles. For a good idea of the usual, you can Youtube Micah.