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Effete Snob

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1. That's a difficult headline

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Aug 2, 2021, 08:52 AM

Aug 2021

The author of that headline might have paused to rethink it before going to print. I gather the statute is still on the books, not that the men are still on the books in the bookstore, or ever were on the books for that matter.

In any event, this is the statute in question:

https://codes.findlaw.com/md/criminal-law/md-code-crim-law-sect-3-322.html

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Md. sodomy law used in bookstore arrests of gay men still on books [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 OP

That's a difficult headline Effete Snob Aug 2021 #1

There are all manner of laws still on the books that are no longer operative due to court decisions. Passenger Aug 2021 #2

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