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Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Sodomy Law
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Thursday sodomy laws that make it a crime for people of the same sex to engage in “deviate sexual intercourse” a ruling that gives gay rights advocates a major victory.
By a 6-3 vote, the nation’s highest court in an opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy ruled a Texas law violated constitutional privacy rights.By a separate 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court also overturned its 1986 ruling that upheld a Georgia sodomy law and that declared that homosexuals have no constitutional right to engage in sodomy in private.The 30-year-old Texas “homosexual conduct” law makes it a crime for same-sex couples to engage in “deviate sexual intercourse,” defined as oral and anal sex, even if it is consensual and occurs in the privacy of a person’s bedroom. Violators face a maximum punishment of a $500 fine.
The ruling will invalidate sodomy laws that exist in 13 states. Besides Texas, the other states are Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia.
Bout flippin time… personal privacy and dignity.. what a concept!
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Unbelievable that we had to waste tax payers dollars for this lawsuit…
These states couldn’t figure this one out on their own?
At least the Supreme Court got it right!
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Yahoo!
The behavior that these goofy laws seek to regulate is perverse. How about gay sex in broad daylight at a children’s playground? Check out this news story:
http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4788993/21621574.html