Louisiana Sodomy Law Debated

The Advertiser reports that NOLA DA Eddie Jordan has established context to debate Louisiana's sodomy law by saying that he is willing to support the decriminalization of such activity in the home as long as public acts are still punishable as a felony.

Between 1988 and 1995, more than 2,000 people were arrested under the law, according to a study by Dr. John Penny, a professor of criminal justice and criminology at Southern University at New Orleans. Of that number, 98.3 percent of the arrests were against prostitutes and the rest against people performing sodomy in the home, the study found.

Posted by AJR at March 10, 2003 07:57 AM