Kansas forced to remove their heads from their asses

Does it amaze anyone else that people still have to be told that discrimination is illegal?

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.”

Matthew R. Limon,18, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for having consensual sex with a 14 year-old boy. (Had the sex been with a girl, the maximum sentence for Limon would have been 15 months.)
Limon will now be resentenced–but he has already served more than five years. For having sex.

Amanda brings up a great point about consent laws, something that has always bugged me:

There’s just too many examples of teenage couples with small age gaps getting in trouble for being interracial or gay or just not being the two kids that the parents wanted to see with each other. Then you have the flip side, with couples with alarmingly big age gaps being accepted because they fit into the patriarchal standard, such as the situation where the community supported a 13-year-old marrying a 22-year-old who had gotten her pregnant.

Unbelievable.