Not content with preserving the racist language in their state constitution, those wacky Alabamians are at it again. State Representative Gerald Allen is proposing to burn (OK, ban from libraries) all books that include homosexual characters. Neil Gaiman has blogged about it, as has Sully. So much for Tennessee Williams' southern classic "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof", Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" and Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited". (And Dave Thompson's book on "Last Tango in Paris" would also be excluded: the proposed ban would also cover books containing heterosexual "actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws of Alabama".)
Posted by geoff2 at December 2, 2004 01:17 AMI couldn't find anything online that spelled out "the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws of Alabama," but I did find numerous case were these types of laws have been used against lesbians as well as gay men. I suspect that a good portion of the residents of AL violate them if they include everything but piv missionary position sex between legal spouses, which they might. Or maybe they are so vague that they can be used for anything against anyone.
The societal regression in the US during past four years is truly frightening, I don't even want to imagine the next 4.
A brain drain to Canada and elsewhere is looking more and more realistic.
Susan in St. Paul
Posted by: Susan in St. Paul at December 2, 2004 01:51 AMHa, found one!
"The crime known in many states as sodomy is called sexual misconduct in Alabama. It is a misdemeanor banning acts of oral or anal sex between adults not married to each other." http://snipurl.com/b18i
Hmm, more liberal than I had thought.
Posted by: Susan in St. Paul at December 2, 2004 02:01 AM