I just have to wonder how many people were getting murdered and raped while they were arresting and booking these dudes for poking each other in the butt. Seems like theres a better for law enforcement officers time than going after homosexuals.
Also, did they bust down the door or something? Or did they think it was the pizza guy and just told him to come in while they were going at it. I think its dumb to have laws like this that pertain to adult on adult action, but how on earth did they get caught anyway.
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"He leads police into apartment," Shackleford recounted, "and they find two men engaged in anal sodomy." <<<Texas Physicians Resource Council, Christian Medical and Dental Association, Catholic Medical Association II. THE PROHIBITION OF SAME-SEX SODOMY IS RATION-ALLY RELATED TO THE STATE'S INTEREST IN PUBLIC HEALTH A. The State Has a Legitimate Interest in Regulating Public Health
This Court has long recognized the validity of state regulation of public health and morality. 6 Railroad Co. v. Husen, 95 U. S. 465, 470-71 (1877) (state's police power "is generally said to extend to making regulations promotive of domestic order, morals, health and safety"). Soon after ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, this Court held that it did not affect a state's police power:
But neither the [Fourteenth] amendment– broad and comprehensive as it is– nor any other amendment, was designed to interfere with the power of the state, some-times termed its police power, to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people . . . .
7 Barbier v. Connolly, 113 U. S. 27, 31 (1884); see also L'Hote v. City of New Orleans, 177 U. S. 587, 596 (1900) (" It has been often said that the police power was not by the Federal Constitution transferred to the nation, but was reserved to the states, and that upon them rests the duty of so exercising it as to protect the public health and morals"). The Court has continued to recognize the valid exercise of police powers promoting public health and morality in recent years. City of Erie v. Pap's A. M., 529 U. S. 277, 298 (2000) (" Erie's efforts to protect public health and safety are clearly within the city's police powers"); Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., 501 U. S. 560, 569 (1991) (" The traditional police power of the States is defined as the authority to provide for the public health, safety, and morals, and we have upheld such a basis for legislation").