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was a constant threat. "Even if you haven't been personally touched by it, the fear is there," she said.

Gill-Jefferson's ruling was the second victory for opponents of the sodomy law in as many months. In February, the state Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal reversed the 1996 conviction of a man found guilty of having oral sex with a woman. The appeal court said the law violated privacy rights. Prosecutors appealed that decision, and the case is currently pending before the Louisiana supreme court.

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and lesbian group, that case will go directly to the state supreme court because it is a civil case dealing directly with a constitutional issue.

Suzanne Goldberg, an attorney with the gay and lesbian Lambda Legal Defense, said the recent rulings in Louisiana follow a nationwide trend in which courts have ruled that sodomy laws violate privacy rights. "These are both important decisions," Goldberg said. "The state should not be in the business of policing private sexual intimacy between consenting adults.”

Rawls said the number of states is dwindling where oral and anal sex is illegal. "We are now down to 15 and counting," he said.

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