Court Rules Kan. Can't Single Out Gay Sex - Yahoo! News:
"The Supreme Court said in a unanimous ruling that a law that specified such harsher treatment and led to a 17-year prison sentence for an 18-year-old defendant 'suggests animus toward teenagers who engage in homosexual sex.'This makes perfect sense to me.
'Moral disapproval of a group cannot be a legitimate state interest,' said Justice Marla Luckert, writing for the high court.
The defendant, Matthew R. Limon, has been behind bars since he was convicted in 2000 of performing a sex act on a 14-year-old boy. Had one of them been a girl, the state's 'Romeo and Juliet' law would have dictated a maximum sentence of 15 months.
The court said Limon should be resentenced within 30 days as if the law treated illegal gay sex and illegal straight sex the same, and it struck language from the law that resulted in the different treatment."
