Sodomy law: Pennsylvania, June 1693
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Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay/Lesbian Almanac (NY: Harper & Row, 1983) p. 121.
While William Penn, temporarily in disfavor with William and Mary, was suspended
from power for two years, the Royal governor appointed to replace him
repealed most prior legislation, including the non-capital Pennsylvania sodomy
law of 1682 (see Dec. 7).[1] No new sodomy law was passed during the Royal
governor's less-than-two-year reign, and the English sodomy law was perhaps
considered in force. When William Penn returned to Royal favor, the governor
he appointed ruled according to the non-capital sodomy statute of 1682.
The next revision of Pennsylvania sodomy law was in 1700 (see).
References
- ↑ 1693, June: Pennsylvania sodomy law; Straughton, pp. 539-58; James T. Mitchell and Henry Flanders, ed., The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801 (Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, 1896), vol. 2, pp. 8, 79, 183-84; vol. 3, p. 202: Gail McKnight Beekman, ed., The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania in the Time of William Penn (New York: 1976), vol. I, pp. 9, 176.
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