Sentences with phrase «state sodomy laws»
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.
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The United States struck down its sodomy laws only in 2003.
Only four states had such a law, and in Texas and elsewhere sodomy laws in general were seldom enforced.
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.
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.»
Only 4 states had specific sodomy laws against gay people.
because if it were, then states could restrict and enforce laws against sodomy, if they so chose.