Michigan lawmakers on "zombie bill" killing spree, seek to decriminalize adultery and sodomy

[WestMichRad]

https://michiganadvance.com/2024/12/03/michigan-lawmakers-on-zombie-bill-killing-spree-seek-to-decriminalize-adultery-and-sodomy/

Michigan lawmakers heard testimony to repeal laws criminalizing adultery and same-sex sexual conduct in committee meetings Tuesday, with supporters for the changes saying the current laws are “zombies” from the 1930s and need to be updated.

Michigan is one of the few remaining states criminalizing same-sex sexual conduct under its laws concerning “crimes against nature” or sodomy.

One of the lawmakers spearheading the effort to remove the section of Michigan law that criminalizes and punishes same-sex sexual conduct as an “abominable and detestable” crime against nature on par with bestiality, spoke to the Michigan House Criminal Justice Committee Tuesday about the need for Michigan’s law to be altered.

Though the laws on the books in a few states banning same-sex sexual conduct are unenforceable under a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Lawrence v. Texas, state Rep. Noah Arbit (D-West Bloomfield), reasoned that decision could fall and Michigan’s 1931 “zombie law” on sodomy could come to haunt the state.
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Democratic pols in Michigan are (correctly, I think) expecting SCOTUS to overturn the Obergefell v Hodges decision, which outlaws banning of same-sex marriage, and/or Lawrence v Texas, which prevents criminalization of consensual sex between same-sex couples.

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1. Michigan was the first state to abolish the death penalty and for a very good reason.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/state-and-federal-info/state-by-state/michigan