baby steps, but thunderous baby steps

[rm]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2009/03/obama-decrimina.html

The Obama administration said today it will sign on to a United Nations declaration calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality around the world.

There's some wibbly wobbly bullshit as you read further down, but at least we're up to the wibbly wobbly bullshit with this administration.

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

No, there was a Supreme Court case in 2003 that got rid of all sodomy laws.

[demotu.livejournal.com]

Aha. I thought for a moment I had no idea when/if we'd gotten rid of ours, and then I remembered Trudeau's line "the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation", so it must have been the 60s.

*googles*

Oh, here: The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968/69.

1968

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I could have told you in my sleep.
Of course the age of consent for same-sex relations was still 21 until 1988.

Re: 1968

[demotu.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, it was twenty years before I was born. And we didn't make it past WWII in 10th grade history. ;) So I knew it existed but not the date.

Re: 1968

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Sorry.
I thought we were all required to know the whole "the State has no business..." bit, as part of Our Proud Canadian Heritage.
It's like our "Let justice be done" speech or something.

Re: 1968

[demotu.livejournal.com]

Well, as that is the part I remembered best, clearly something worked!

Re: 1968

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Yay! The System works!