Judge Peter Germanos on Saturday cleared the group of charges of committing sexual acts “contrary to nature” and declined to issue warrants for their arrest, the Daily Star, a Beirut-based daily, reported.Germanos told the newspaper that “sodomy is not punishable by law” as the country’s penal code did not specify what “kind of relationship can be considered ‘contrary to nature'”. The four people referred to the court had been dismissed from their posts, the daily said. Civilian courts in Lebanon have previously ruled consensual sex between people of the same sex as not unlawful.