Sentences with phrase «sodomy laws in»

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

But the logic of the matter Nino saw at work as early as Romer v. Evans (1996), and yet even more sharply in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), when the Court struck down the (notably unenforced) law on sodomy in Texas.

Another round in the judicial wars began in June with the Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas invalidating laws in 13 states prohibiting private, consensual adult sodomy.

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.

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

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?

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).

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 repealeIn 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 repealein 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 repealein 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.

While in the midst of my virtual book tour with Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours, I was asked to write a post about the issues my characters might face in 1846, being that sodomy was against the law and all.

(Georgia, after all, was the home of laws criminalizing sodomy, which were challenged in the now - overruled U.S. Supreme Court decision, Bowers v. Hardwick).