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Also, even if all the Supreme Court objected to in the Limon case was the sentencing disparity with heterosexual statutory rape, that sentencing disparity in the past would have been upheld under rational-basis review. Only heightened scrutiny (in name or in fact) can explain what the Supreme Court did. That means that one of the things that enjoy at least a certain level of legal protection under Lawrence is the homosexual sodomization of a 14-year-old boy.