Now it’s illegal for gays to flirt in Michigan

in: http://gay.americablog.com/2011/12/now-its-illegal-gay-gays-to-flirt-in.html

It's one thing for the city to say they'd rather not have public sex in a park, it's quite another to say that it's against the law to meet someone in a park and ask them home with you. Yet that's what one Michigan town is saying, and doing - arresting gay men for simply talking about going home with you. The ACLU is on the case. From the Grand Rapids Press:

Gay men in Kent County are being targeted and entrapped by Kent County Sheriff’s deputies for behaviors that would be deemed acceptable for straight couples, a group of gay rights activist told the Kent County Commission on Tuesday.

A group including a Holland minister and a board member of Equality Michigan say sheriff’s deputies arrested 33 gay men in county parks in 2010 under the state’s soliciting and accosting statute, but claim about half of those arrests involved two men merely speaking to undercover deputies, or making casual contact like holding hands.

Miriam Aukerman, West Michigan staff attorney for the ACLU, which is investigating the allegations, said in half the reports she examined law officers initiated the contact with those they later arrested.

So, hot guy starts chatting you up, out of the blue, in a public park, you really like him so you ask him to your place, and he arrests you. Where to begin with how wrong this is. And holding hands in public is now lewd? Seriously?