I think we can all conjur up a mental image of Thomas Jefferson bent over and taking it up the wrong end while writing our grand constitution, can't we? I'm disgusted that anyone can think that's what "our forefathers fought for". Explain to me why up until the '60's there were laws on the books in all states.
Explain to me why up until the '60's there were laws on the books in all states.
Inertia?
White said that Georgia was justified in outlawing private, consensual sodomy because of the "presumed belief of a majority of the electorate in Georgia that homosexual sodomy is immoral and unacceptable."
5 Thus, merely because the state long had interfered with sexual activity between consenting adults, that was sufficient constitutional justification for permitting them to continue doing so.