[lbo-talk] Banned in Boston

[Bradford DeLong]

>>  > Not all Mr. Sinnott's actions concerned legally prohibited matters
>>>  like blasphemy.
>>
>>Just out of curiousity, is blasphemy still in the books as a crime in
>>Boston, as sodomy still is in so many states?
>>
>
>A Russian friend of mine some time ago asked me if what he had read 
>in a newspaper about a man in Alabama (?) in the 80s having been 
>arrested for havinn sodomy was really true. His reaction was, "Not 
>even in the darkest days of Stalin!"

If it were Georgia, then it would have been a joke...