....The Michigan Senate has passed a bill that effectively reaffirms the
state’s unconstitutional law making sodomy a felony punishable by up to
15 years in prison.

Michigan is one of more than a dozen states that still have sodomy bans
on the books, despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling in Lawrence
v. Texas declaring them unconstitutional.

Some states’ sodomy laws specifically target gay relations, but
Michigan’s is among those that make oral and anal sex crimes illegal
regardless of whether they’re same-sex or different-sex.

Michigan is also one of several states with a sodomy ban that’s
intertwined with a prohibition on bestiality – effectively equating the two.

The law makes it a felony for anyone to commit “the abominable and
detestable crime against nature with mankind or with any animal.� If the
person is already a sex offender, violations are punishable by life in
prison…’