Associated Press
A federal judge is weighing a bid to dismissa lawsuit challenging a Louisiana law that has required peopleconvicted of soliciting oral or anal sex to register as sexoffenders.
U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman didn't immediately ruleWednesday after hearing the state's request to throw out thelawsuit over its 200-year-old "crimes against nature" law.
Civil rights attorneys who filed the suit claim the law isunconstitutional and discriminatory and unfairly condemns sex actstraditionally associated with homosexuality.
The state says the plaintiffs -- an anonymous group of registeredsex offenders -- don't have a constitutionally protected right toprivacy after being convicted of engaging in sex acts for money.
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