Gay Sex is Equal to Het Sex (Except When it's Not)

Isn't this interesting?

"TOPEKA, Kan. -- The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday unanimously struck down a state law that punished underage sex more severely if it involved homosexual acts, saying 'moral disapproval' of such conduct is not enough to justify the different treatment.

In a case closely watched by national groups on all sides of the gay rights debate, the high court said the law 'suggests animus toward teenagers who engage in homosexual sex.'

Gay rights groups praised the ruling, while conservatives bitterly complained that the court intruded on the Legislature's authority to make the laws.

The case involved an 18-year-old man, Matthew R. Limon, who was found guilty in 2000 of performing a sex act on a 14-year-old boy and was sentenced to 17 years in prison. Had one of them been a girl, state law would have dictated a maximum sentence of 15 months.

The high court ordered that Limon be resentenced as if the law treated illegal gay sex and illegal straight sex the same. He has already served more than five years."

Moralists will insist on mischaracterizing this ruling as being that of activist judges interfering with a state's right to create uneven penalties for the same crime on the basis of their feeling offended (boo-hoo).

Those same moralists will of course fail to see how offensive it is to women that their moral outrage is based not on the victimization of one by age but by same-sex gender, squarely suggesting that women are second-class citizens--mere beggars at the table--when it comes to justice.