We're All Animals

November, 2012

Hugh Hefner's warning about a future under Republican rule is exactly the alarm we need to hear as we begin the final leg of the presidential race (Sexual Freedom, September). He quotes a Virginia legislator who asserted on CNN that "sodomy is not a civil right." That's not the issue. The issue is that sexual expression among con­senting adults is to be celebrated. Even the dissenters in the 2003 Supreme Court decision Lawrence and Garner v. Texas, which struck down state sodomy laws,...