[ajmccarrell]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

No, it is not. The R admin in the Lawrence case (which was W's administration while gov. ) arrested and proscuted two gay guys for having consensual sex in the privacy of their own home. That directly responds to and negates your statement in post 214 of this thread:



So, it is not a stretch. It is exactly what happened. Can you not see that?

So you know -- here are the facts of Lawrence:

The petitioners, medical technologist John Geddes Lawrence, then 55, and Tyron Garner then 31, were alleged to have been engaging in consensual anal sex in Lawrence's apartment in the outskirts of Houston between 10:30 and 11 p.m. on September 17, 1998 when Harris County sheriff's deputy Joseph Quinn entered the unlocked apartment, with his weapon drawn, arresting the two.

The arrests stemmed from a false report of a "weapons disturbance" in their home — that because of a domestic disturbance or robbery, there was a man with a gun "going crazy." The person who filed the report, neighbor Robert Royce Eubanks, then 40, had earlier been accused of harassing the plaintiffs. Despite the false report, probable cause to enter the home was not at issue in the case; Eubanks, with whom Garner was romantically involved at the time of the arrest, later admitted that he was lying, pleaded no contest to charges of filing a false police report, and served 15 days in jail.

In the end and regardless of political party (though the R's currently are the leaders in the area) -- legislating private consenual sex is never going to work and results in insane laws. But, that is what the R party is all about these days. So, when you vote for them, you vote for that.

Since the Republicans were the leaders in the area, they are all responsible for the actions of the cops? That is a stretch still. It is more likely that, because a neighbor complained about a weapon, that the police decided to arrest them on the sodomy charges until they could investigate them further. That happens in law enforcement. You can find people that were picked up on minor charges in the meantime while the police investigate a larger charge.