Kansas Teenager Ensnared by "Romeo+Juliet" Law Set Free

Mathew Limon, who as a gay Kansas teenager had (homosexual) sex with a 14-year old boy when Limon was 18-years old, was prosecuted, convicted and then imprisoned for five years has finally been freed. The Kansas Supreme Court finally ruled that "Moral disapproval of a group cannot be a legitimate state interest" and struck down an unconstitutional Kansas law that had a harsher punishment for committing a act which if it had been done with a girl of a similar age would have resulted in a fine. The Limon case has been a cause célèbre of sodomy law activists and gay rights activists since the June 2003 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Lawrences v. Texas.