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Lawrence v Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), is a landmark United States Supreme Court case. In the 6-3 ruling, the Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas. The court had previously addressed the same issue in 1986 in Bowers v. Hardwick, where it upheld a challenged Georgia statute, not finding a constitutional protection of sexual privacy.
Lawrence explicitly overruled Bowers, holding that it had viewed the liberty interest too narrowly. The majority held that intimate consensual sexual conduct was part of the liberty protected by substantive due process under the Fourteenth Amendment. Lawrence has the effect of invalidating similar laws throughout the United States that purport to criminalize sodomy between consenting same-sex adults acting in private. It also invalidated the application of sodomy laws to heterosexual sex.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas
No, they don’t. It’s sweeping statements like that that cause a lot of anger and hostility.
Do you have a right to abuse a minor as long as it is done in your house? Do you have a right to turn your house into an illegal drug factory? Do you have a right to plot a conspiracy in your house? Do you have a right to run a house of prostitution in your house? Do you have a right to commit a murder in your house? I could go on but you get the point.
If you had a right to do what you want as long as it’s done in your house, search warrants would not even exist. It’s attitudes like yours that led people to the mistaken belief that the function of government to give them whatever they want.
You are the one who needs to get a grip.
