Monday, July 29, 2013

Baton Rouge Sherriff arresting gays using antiquated law

The sodomy law is already struck down by the Supreme Court. Sheriff Sid Gautreaux and deputies ask men if they want to go home together to bump uglies, if they concur and get in the car, then boom, arrested.

Someone asks in the comments, "What about Shreveport?"

And that made me laugh. I used to live there. It seemed like a sweet question.

John Aravosis Americablog

15 comments:

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I'm going to assume they don't put a bunch of homos together in the same holding cell.

I Have Misplaced My Pants said...

Rogue sheriff.

I Have Misplaced My Pants said...

Rogue batons.

Karen of Texas said...

Moulin Rogue!

Okay. Maybe not...

sakredkow said...

The Sheriff must be a drama queen.

chickelit said...

Shreveport. Ha Ha I get it, Chip. shreve

edutcher said...

Lawrence is a little like the 55 mph speed limit Bucketmouth passed in the 70s to please the enviro-nuts.

Chennaul said...

Okay *damn it* need to go get coffee, I read that as--


Baton Rouge Sherriff *attracting* gays using antiquated law

Revenant said...

The nice thing about Louisiana is that it gives the rest of the South something to feel superior to.

Trooper York said...

Well lets not jump to conclusions.

Maybe he just wanted to force them to get married.

They don't bide with pre-marital fornicating. No Sireee.

Amartel said...

This isn't guillotine-worthy.
But I would not object to an instructional trebucheting.

Yet another government tool abusing the power of the office.

Amartel said...

This isn't guillotine-worthy.
But I would not object to an instructional trebucheting.

Yet another government tool abusing the power of the office.

Synova said...

That's just to weird that my first thought is that something else must be going on.

Synova said...

Just too weird.

Bleh.

Anyhow... just weird. And no mention of where this is happening. Do the cops go into a gay bar? Are gay men going to some public street or something for hook ups like day laborers? I would think that propositioning other men just anywhere would lead to a rather large number of arrests for assaulting a law officer when the cop's gaydar fails.

It's entirely possible that the Sheriff is a bigot doing this just because he can, but he's also got to convince the "under cover" guys to do it, too.

We could argue about how the police use excuse laws to arrest people for something other than what they're actually being arrested for... but that's another possibility. Is the Sheriff using this law to take care of some other nuisance problem?

Doesn't make it right, but it would be interesting to know. I mean... if these arrests were happening from propositions in airport bathrooms I might even be moved to go from "its wrong in any case to use a law like this when it's a bad law" to "good on you."

Not saying it is, just saying that info is missing from the article.

Synova said...

"BATON ROUGE, La. – A newspaper is reporting that an East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office task force arrested at least 12 men since 2011 under a sodomy law that was invalidated a decade ago by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Advocate newspaper (http://bit.ly/13mSpdc) reports that the task force was trying to deter sexual activities at its public parks. The newspaper reported that the latest arrest was July 18 for a man who merely discussed or agreed to have sex with a male undercover agent.
District Attorney Hillar Moore III told the newspaper that although sex in public and solicitation for money are illegal, those were not part of the 12 cases. Moore says most of the men were arrested after agreeing to have sex away from the park at a private residence.
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/28/newspaper-at-least-12-men-arrested-by-baton-rouge-la-police-under-invalidated/#ixzz2aUoGGId8

So... I wasn't far off.

That doesn't mean, of course, that the Sheriff should be using one law to arrest these men for something else but really guys... sex in the park? What douche views his own sexuality as license to turn a public park into a sleaze-bag zone? Why is this presented as bigotry against gays when, at most, it's bigotry against people who turn public parks into public sex zones. Are we supposed to celebrate the fact that this didn't involve goats?