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Re: Potentially speaking
Posted by spell19 on 2012-August-03 22:18:19 EDT, Friday
In reply to Re: Potentially speaking posted by Gimwinkle on 2012-August-03 05:28:59 EDT, Friday
According to Wikipedia,
"Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. In the 6-3 ruling, the Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas and, by extension, invalidated sodomy laws in thirteen other states, making same-sex sexual activity legal in every U.S. state and territory. The court overturned its previous ruling on the same issue in the 1986 case Bowers v. Hardwick, where it upheld a challenged Georgia statute and did not find a constitutional protection of sexual privacy.
"Lawrence explicitly overruled Bowers, holding that it had viewed the liberty interest too narrowly. The Court held that intimate consensual sexual conduct was part of the liberty protected by substantive due process under the Fourteenth Amendment. Lawrence invalidated similar laws throughout the United States that criminalized sodomy between consenting adults acting in private, whatever the sex of the participants."
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- Re: Potentially speaking - Gimwinkle on 2012-August-04 07:13:11 EDT, Saturday - (0 / 0 / 0)
- There is a Saudi Arabia exception - qtns2di4 on 2012-August-04 04:39:21 EDT, Saturday - (0 / 0 / 0)