TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas cannot punish illegal underage sex more severely if it involves homosexual conduct, the state's highest court ruled unanimously Friday in a case watched by national groups on both sides of the gay rights debate.

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WHAT!!!!!!!  How can you justify 17 YEARS for a sexual encounter?  I guess if one person is 40 and the other is 14 that's a problem, but 18 and 14.  Yeah the older one should have stayed away, but still...17 years!  That's a tad extreme.  AND how did it take 5 years for this to get overturned?  America...gotta love it!

There is an old saying. Justice delayed is justice denied. 

Cassie