By Jim Duke, AFR News
and Jim Brown, AgapePress
September 13, 2000

(AgapePress) - A three-judge panel of the Virginia Court of Appeals heard arguments from attorneys on behalf of ten men who were arrested for violating the state law against sodomy. According to the Family Policy Network, the ten plaintiffs each attempted to solicit sex from undercover police officers in a Roanoke local park.

On Tuesday Sam Garrison, an attorney for the ten homosexuals, said the Virginia sodomy statute presumes "to tell adults what they can and cannot do in their bedrooms." Joe Glover, President of the Family Policy Network, said, "Apparently Mr. Garrison cannot discern the difference between a public park and a private bedroom."

Glover says, "These homosexuals are demanding the acceptance of sex with strangers in public parks." Meanwhile, diseases like AIDS, HIV, and hepatitis are all spreading as a result of such activities. In fact, an Oxford University study this year found that persons engaging in sodomy by age 20 have just over a 50% chance of reaching age 65.

Glover wonders how anyone could advocate such unhealthy activity

"Sodomy is a dangerous activity with deadly consequences--both for the people who practice it and for the general public," he says. "There is no way dropping the sodomy statute will benefit the citizens of Virginia."

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