Homophobia? There’s an app for that.
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| It’s being claimed in the Blind Taste blog that a popular iPhone App which tells you where your friendly neighbourhood registerd sex offenders live, is also tracking some people merely on the basis that they are gay, because they have, in the past, been convicted of an illegal homosexual act. |  |
For example, a Ridgeland, Mississippi man that “Offender Locator” warns you about was convicted in 1994 of “Unnatural Intercourse” under Mississippi Code § 97-29-59, that state’s anti-sodomy law, which still stands and has been held to prohibit both consensual gay sex and consensual heterosexual oral sex. And under § 45-33-23, that man is still required to register as a sex offender. According to a website published by the state of Mississippi listing registered sex offenders, the man’s information was current as of June 24, 2009.”
Depending on local laws, teenagers who are convicted of statutory rape for doing bold stuff with their slightly younger partners, may also be listed as sex offenders.
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