Supreme Court Strikes Down Gay Sex Ban Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Gay Sex, Reverses Ruling That Punishes Homosexuals The Associated Press WASHINGTON June 26 — What gay men and women do in the privacy of their bedrooms is their business and not the government's, the Supreme Court said Thursday in a historic civil rights ruling striking down bans on what some states have called deviate sex acts. Gay rights advocates called the ruling, by a 6-3 vote, the most important legal advance ever for gay people in the United States. Two gay men arrested after police walked in...