Saturday, March 10, 2007

Many changes are made

On it goes, and soon after sodomy became a capital crime through the nations. (1642, Connecticut includes sodomy in its 12 capital crimes). Laws of sodomy grew and there were more and more. Boys over the age of 14 would be put to death if caught with the act of sodomy.

But soon after, people started to say why women are allowed this crime of homosexuality when men are not. Thus lesbians were also punished and hung when caught. It started in Salem, Massachusetts, and spread through the nation. (1642)

Chaos is made throughout the nation as Homosexuality is growing more and more. And all are put to the death penalty.

Time passes and there is finally a change. Pennsylvania. A Quaker colony is the first to pass that sodomy is NOT a capital crime and is reduced to only whipping forfeiture of 1/3 of one’s estate, and six months of hard labor. (1682)


http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Park/2609/timeline2.htm

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