Minnesota
Section 609.293
Using decidedly biblical parlance, Minnesota's unconstitutional-yet-persistently-on-the-books definition of sodomy says, "Sodomy means carnally knowing any person by the anus or by or with the mouth." It provides various multiyear prison sentences as punishment for sodomy.
The good news for Minnesotans is the statute comes with a footnote that even without the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in Lawrence v. Texas, the law is superseded by a U.S. District Court's ruling that the state sodomy law is unconstitutional.
"The Hennepin County District Court found section 609.293 unconstitutional as applied to private, noncommercial acts by consenting adults in Doe v. Ventura, No. 01-489 (4th Dist. Ct. Hennepin County, May 15, 2001). In Devescovi v. Ventura, 195 F. Supp. 2d 1146 (D. Minn. 2002), the United States District Court found that, since the decision was not appealed, the Hennepin County District decision is binding state law."
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