Sentences with phrase «sodomy laws»

And although I have argued that moral reasoning under general concepts like «liberty» is a very uncertain business, we can still note that Texas and elsewhere sodomy laws in general were seldom enforced.

It would take nearly a century for these activists to achieve one of their central goals - the repeal of sodomy laws.

Only four states had such a law, and in Texas and elsewhere sodomy laws in general were seldom enforced.

You then INCORRECTLY labeled sodomy laws as being illegal to be gay in the u.s (but let's forget you said that for now).

ONCE AGAIN YOU GENUINELY DO N'T UNDERSTAND SODOMY LAWS.

They would love to outlaw abortion and bring back sodomy laws like the ones struck down in Texas.

And before there was gay marriage, there was tooth and nail fighting to keep gays out of the military and to keep sodomy laws on the books.

However, enforced or not, sodomy laws stigmatize as criminal the person whose only crime is preference for the same sex, and inevitably such laws have considerable effect upon the gay individual's sense of self - worth.

Again, sodomy laws APLLY TO STRAIGHT PEOPLE TOO you idiot.

Only 4 states had specific sodomy laws against gay people.

The New York Times reports that based on the Lawrence case, which held that state sodomy laws were unconstitutional intrusions on adults» «intimate conduct,» Turley and the Browns will seek protection for the «intimate conduct» of polygamists.

Interpreting the Supreme Court's 2003 opinion, Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down convictions of two gay men under a Texas sodomy law, the 1st Circuit held that Lawrence did not require it to invalidate DADT.

A news release said that Kiehn correctly predicted some of the year's most important cases, including Grutter v. Bollinger, the University of Michigan affirmative action case, and Lawrence v. Texas, the challenge to Texas» same - sex sodomy law.

Publicly gay politicians have attained numerous government posts, even in countries that had sodomy laws in their recent past.

He demanded not just the repeal of the sodomy law, but the opening of government jobs to known homosexuals - a radical idea at the time, and one that would remain far out of reach for many decades.

Germany enjoyed a 14 - year period of democracy after World War I, but the Nazis came to power in 1933 and used the sodomy law to murder thousands of men.

The United States struck down its sodomy laws only in 2003.

But the sodomy law was just the tip of the iceberg: S. and men like him generally could not reveal their love relationships in public, or even to family members.

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.

Now expand that to birth control and sodomy laws.

Again, you don't know what sodomy laws were and because of this you can't understand why sodomy laws AND MAKING HOMOSEXUALITY COMPLETELY ILLEGAL are not comparable.

In 2003, a prominent Christian pastor in Ghana warned that God would send «earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, fire outbreak, volcanoes and the bad things that happen in the Western countries» if Ghana's sodomy laws were repealed.

Or so says popular Ghanaian Pastor, Rev. Ebenezer Opambour Adarkwah Yiadom of the Ebenezer Miracle Worship Center in Kumasi, if Ghana repeals its sodomy laws.