Notice how the loudest "anti-gay" screamers are the ones usually getting 
caught in gay sex, and now this fellow who yells and screams about the 
"mean old ACLU" is getting help from them?


The attorney for a former Baptist church leader who had spoken out 
against homosexuality said Thursday that the minister has a 
constitutional right to solicit sex from an undercover policeman.

The Rev. Lonnie W. Latham had supported a resolution calling on gays and 
lesbians to reject their "sinful, destructive lifestyle" before his Jan. 
3, 2006, arrest outside the Habana Inn in Oklahoma City.

Authorities allege that Latham asked the undercover policeman to come up 
to his hotel for oral sex.

Latham's attorney, Mack Martin, filed a motion to have the misdemeanor 
lewdness charge thrown out, saying the Supreme Court ruled in the 2003 
decision Lawrence v. Texas that it was not illegal for consenting adults 
to engage in private homosexual acts.

"Now, my client's being prosecuted basically for having offered to 
engage in such an act, which basically makes it a crime to ask someone 
to do something that's legal," Martin said.

Both sides agree that there was no offer of money, but prosecutor Scott 
Rowland said there is a "legitimate governmental interest" in regulating 
offers of acts of lewdness.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma has filed a brief 
alleging that Latham's arrest also violated his right to free speech.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/16772151.htm

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