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Court Case Number 15: Bowers V. Hardwick (June 30, 1986)
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Court Case Number 15: Bowers v. Hardwick (June 30, 1986)
In August of 1982, Michael Hardwick was charged with violating the
Georgia statute criminalizing sodomy by committing that act with another adult
male in the bedroom of Hardwick's home. Hardwick then brought suit in the
Federal District Cou ....
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....urteenth Amendment was
ratified, all but five of the thirty-seven States in the Union had criminal
sodomy laws. In fact, until 1961, all fifty States and the District of Columbia
continue to provide criminal penalties for sodomy performed in private and
between consenting adults.
As his honorable Justice John Paul Stevens opinion stated, sodomy was
condemned as an odious and sinful type of behavior during the formative period
of the common law. That condemnation was equally damning for hetero.... |
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