The Supreme Court, A Crime Against Nature

We can shoot that ignorance down with a brief history lesson. In 1805, the then-territory of Orleans passed “Act number 50” which contained the following law. “Whoever shall be convicted of the detestable and abominable ‘crime against nature’, committed with mankind or beast, shall suffer imprisonment at hard labor for life.” When this state petitioned for entry into the American Union in 1812 there was no demand that said “ok, we’ll let you homophobic, WhoDat yayhoos in, but you gotta loses the “sodomy act”, it’s “unconstitutional.” The legislature revised the statute in 1855, 1870 and finally in 1896 AFTER the 14th Amendment had been in effect for 30 years, but there was no cry of “unconstitutional!” Matter of fact, I was able to find the law used successfully all the way into the 1970’s which brings up a good question: if some law was “constitutional” in the 1970’s and the Constitution hasn’t been changed since then, how can the same law be “unconstitutional” now?

I’ll answer that: The Sodomy Law is “constitutional” so long as the good people of this state say it is, barring a “Crime against nature” amendment; and I’d love to see the man, liberals and beasts, begging for that one.

Mike Church is a New Orleans native and a radio host appearing daily on the SiriusXM Patriot Channel. He is an author and editor of “Patrick Henry-American Statesman” and is the writer and director of 7 Docudramas on American history including “The Spirit of ‘76” and the recently released “Times That try Men’s Souls-Washington’s Crossing”.