To: B Knotts
The case is a major reexamination of the rights and acceptance of gay people in the United States. More broadly, it also tests a state's ability to classify as a crime what goes on behind the closed bedroom doors of consenting adults. It's always seemed to me that it would be a bit sticky for states to enforce such laws without violating the 4th Amendment.
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06/26/2003 7:34:30 AM PDT by
Amelia
(It's better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness)
To: Amelia
It has long been established, by the 14th Amendment, that states may not infringe Constitutional rights. The question is: how was the Constitutional right to sodomize established? It is based on an awful decision, that also led to the "right to abortion": Griswold v. Connecticut.
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