[Dead Corpse]

Why not? It ran through the courts here in Texas, and the defendants hada right to appeal to the Supreme Court did they not?

Slice it anyway you like, but this law in Texas did in fact violate the "equal protection" clause.

[Xenalyte]

Slice it anyway you like, but this law in Texas did in fact violate the "equal protection" clause.

The case should have stopped at the Texas Supreme Court. The Texas law did in fact violate equal protection, and the Texas Supremes should have done something about that.

Let me make myself clear: I don't care what two consenting non-related adults do in private. Not one bit. But in 1971 (I think), the Texas Supremes removed the hetero element from the law in question, and they should have removed the whole thing when this case came before them.