Long overdue?
Consensual sodomy would no longer be a crime under the Uniform Code of Military Justice under a provision of a compromise defense bill agreed to by the leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee.
The provision modifies Article 125 of the UCMJ so that bestiality and forcible sodomy remain a military criminal offense but consensual sodomy is not.
Under current law, the maximum punishment for consensual sodomy is a dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances and five years’ confinement.
Maximum punishment for forcible sodomy or for sodomy with a child under age 12 is life imprisonment without the eligibility of parole. Sodomy with a child under the age of 16 but older than 12 is 20 years confinement. These maximum punishments would not change under the defense bill provision.
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