Homosexuals Demand Acceptance of Sex with Strangers in Public Parks

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 12, 2000
NEWS CONTACT: Joe Glover – 804-419-4483 ext. 456

ROANOKE – A three-judge panel of the Virginia Court of Appeals today heard arguments from attorneys on behalf of ten men who were arrested for violating the state law against sodomy. The ten plaintiffs each attempted to solicit sex from undercover police officers in Roanoke’s Wasena Park.

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 Family Policy Network said, “Apparently, Mr. Garrison cannot discern the difference between a public park and a private bedroom.”

“These homosexuals are demanding the acceptance of sex with strangers in public parks,” Glover said. “Meanwhile, diseases like AIDS, HIV and Hepatitis are all spreading as a result of such activities. There is no way dropping the sodomy statute will benefit the citizens of Virginia.”

A study commissioned by Oxford University this year indicated that persons engaging in sodomy by age 20 have just over a fifty percent chance of reaching age sixty-five. Glover said it was ironic that anyone would advocate such unhealthy activity, as if they were doing the people who practice it a favor. Glover said, “Sodomy is a dangerous activity with deadly consequences; both for the people who practice it and for the general public. Virginia has a vested interest in seeing that its citizens lives are not destroyed by unnatural sexual behavior.”

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Sodomy Appeals Hit Court – Roanoke Times