“What do YOU think?”
“Yes.”

Fortunately, that horrible Georgia sodomy law is history, having been voided by the state’s supreme court after the federal court failed to do so. And that homophobic dirtbag that used to be the Georgia attorney general general saw his political career end amidst an adultery scandal. I’m glad the law is gone, though if it had stayed around long enough for said dirtbag politician to be caught in flagrante delicto performing the tender act on his mistress, I might have had reason to question my conclusions about the nonexistence of gods.

I’m continually amazed at the blatant hypocrisy of small-government types who nevertheless insist that it is the government’s role in society to regulate private behaviors of this kind.

Anyway, a law that’s rarely followed and rarely enforced is actually dangerous – it’s an arbitrary weapon in the hands of police and prosecutors, because there’s all those people that they can theoretically arrest or ticket or whatever even if they’re not doing anything the community finds to be wrong. The DA in your story used his powers for good, but imagine if someone used a law like that to persecute some unpopular person who didn’t have the clout to get the law changed? Or even if it just “happened” that the rare enforcement of the law landed mostly on disadvantaged minorities?

Off in pursuit of the wild hyperlink now….