With all of the talk and actions being taken in regards to overly restrictive SC legislation across our country, I would think a good attorney could argue that the privacy rights of "consenting adults" using Lawrence VS. Texas even though this case dealt with sodomy laws, the PRIVACY implications could be far reaching and maybe very beneficial as a PRECEDENT decision in combatting any anti SC legislation... What do you all think?![]()
LAWRENCE VS TEXAS
A law branding one class of persons as criminal solely based on the state’s moral disapproval of that class and the conduct associated with that class runs contrary to the values of the Constitution and the Equal Protection Clause, under any standard of review.”
—Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, agreeing with the majority.
The state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime," Kennedy wrote.
Though Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia offered a dissenting opinion in Lawrence vs. Texas, in which they argued for a state's ability to establish a "moral code" of conduct, they were in the minority. The Lawrence decision,"can be reasonably interpreted as holding that public morality is not a legitimate state interest sufficient to justify infringing on adult, private, consensual, sexual conduct even if that conduct is deemed offensive to the general public's sense of morality."




Keep thy dances in private.
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