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06-26-2003, 02:16 PM
Any positives for the industry here ???
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...o/scotus_sodomy (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=558&e=1&u=/ap/20030626/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_sodomy)
Supreme Court Strikes Down Gay Sex Ban
By ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court struck down a ban on gay sex Thursday, ruling that the law was an unconstitutional violation of privacy.
The 6-3 ruling reverses course from a ruling 17 years ago that states could punish homosexuals for what such laws historically called deviant sex.
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"The state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime," he said.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia (news - web sites) and Clarence Thomas (news - web sites) dissented.
The court "has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda," Scalia wrote for the three. He took the unusual step of reading his dissent from the bench.
"The court has taken sides in the culture war," Scalia said, adding that he has "nothing against homosexuals."
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Ruth Harlow, one of Lawrence's lawyers, called the ruling historic.
"The court had the courage to reverse one of its gravest mistakes and to replace that with a resounding statement," of gay civil rights, Harlow said.
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Of the 13 states with sodomy laws, four — Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri — prohibit oral and anal sex between same-sex couples. The other nine ban consensual sodomy for everyone: Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia.
Thursday's ruling apparently invalidates those laws as well.
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from:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...o/scotus_sodomy (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=558&e=1&u=/ap/20030626/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_sodomy)
Supreme Court Strikes Down Gay Sex Ban
By ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court struck down a ban on gay sex Thursday, ruling that the law was an unconstitutional violation of privacy.
The 6-3 ruling reverses course from a ruling 17 years ago that states could punish homosexuals for what such laws historically called deviant sex.
..........................
"The state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime," he said.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia (news - web sites) and Clarence Thomas (news - web sites) dissented.
The court "has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda," Scalia wrote for the three. He took the unusual step of reading his dissent from the bench.
"The court has taken sides in the culture war," Scalia said, adding that he has "nothing against homosexuals."
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Ruth Harlow, one of Lawrence's lawyers, called the ruling historic.
"The court had the courage to reverse one of its gravest mistakes and to replace that with a resounding statement," of gay civil rights, Harlow said.
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Of the 13 states with sodomy laws, four — Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri — prohibit oral and anal sex between same-sex couples. The other nine ban consensual sodomy for everyone: Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia.
Thursday's ruling apparently invalidates those laws as well.