Sentences with phrase «make sodomy»

Ten years earlier, in Bowers v. Hardwick, the Court had upheld the power of a state to make sodomy a crime; but now, as Justice Scalia pointed out, the Court was willing to strike down a law merely for «disfavoring homosexual conduct.»

The issue in Bowers was the constitutionality of a Georgia law that made sodomy a crime: Did Georgia have the constitutional power to enact such a law?

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So, opening the gates of sodomy for one and all to become sodomizers of sensual Acts will make things better for a society that has been spiraling downward and soon to reach its» bottom?

You can disparage the Supreme Court justices all you want and it will not change the fact that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in the United State of America meaning that it is unconstitutional to pass laws that make homosexuality illegal.

In Northern Ireland, where homosexuality was only made legal 15 years after the rest of the UK in 1982, the Democratic Unionist party (DUP), led by Ian Paisley, ran a Save Ulster from Sodomy campaign.

While many nations have made great strides in the past four years in terms of gay marriage, in other nations sodomy remains a crime and other discriminatory policies remain in place, making even getting tested for HIV a potentially dangerous ordeal.