What Supreme Court Ruling?

Oops, our bad. But it was on the books! Such was the response, essentially, of the East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's office in Louisiana after the Advocate newspaper reported that at least 12 men had been arrested since 2011 under a sodomy law invalidated by the Supreme Court a decade ago. Most of these men were arrested after being approached by a male undercover cop at a park and agreeing to have sex at a private residence. They were all released.

The landmark 2003 Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court case declared a Texas statute prohibiting homosexual oral or anal sex--a so-called...

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