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testament instead of the old testament. The statute "Touching
Whormongers" provided the death penalty for a number of offenses including sodomy, bestiality, fornication, and rape. The law was reworded in 1663 and 1729, removing references to the New Testament, but the death penalty remained. No prosecutions are known to have occurred.
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confined for a term not exceeding three years, and shall be grievously fined at the discretion of the Court". A second offense would result in death. The death penalty was removed as a penalty in 1844; punishment was set at 1 to 12 years' imprisonment. This was raised to 7 to 20 years' imprisonment in 1881.
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in the state. Although the bill was defeated, he symbolically resubmitted it each year for the rest of his term. That same year, Providence appointed the city's first liaison to the gay community. In 1998, Pisaturo introduced the bill that successfully repealed the state's sodomy laws, as well as a
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became the first public school district in the state with a formal policy protecting transgender students. In June, the Rhode Island
Department of Education published guidance on transgender students, which advocated for allowing students to use the bathroom affiliated with their identities.
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issued an executive order banning discrimination against gay and lesbian employees of the state government. The next month, the
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in 1968 as a ministry for gay and lesbian people, held its first service in 1973. The church was given "affiliated status" by the Rhode Island State
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celebrations, which the Rhode Island
Bicentennial Commission denied. Regardless of this, and the Providence police chief's vehement opposition, the group went ahead with hosting Providence's first Pride march in July 1976, at the
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successful bill to grant hospital visitation rights to same-sex couples; in 1999, he introduced a successful bill allowing residents of the state to designate any person, family member or not, as the planner of their
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introduced legislation in the state's House of
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to investigate alleged homosexual personnel by engaging them sexually. A subsequent trial attracted national news coverage and provoked a congressional investigation, which concluded with
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that would "categorize women by their biological identity at birth rather than their gender identity for purposes of organized sports" was introduced by Republican state representative
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