Battle lines drawn after Kansas gay-sex ruling

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/22/AR2005102200896.html?nav=rss_nation/special

"Gay activists applauded a Kansas Supreme Court decision throwing out a measure that allowed vastly harsher punishment for older teenagers who have consensual sex with underage teens of the same gender.

But conservatives cast the ruling as a victory for supporters of a creeping gay-rights agenda.

"This is legislating from the bench that does not reflect the rule of the citizenry," Jerry Johnston, pastor of the First Family Church in Overland Park, Kansas, told Reuters on Saturday."- Ros Krasny, Reuters, Oct. 22, 2005