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Lawrence v. Texas

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Wednesday, October 1, 2003

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Wednesday, October 1, 2003

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2003

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Credit: New York Times

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Lawrence v. Texas; The U.S. Supreme Court, in Justice Anthony Kennedy argues that colonial sodomy laws were about non-procreative sex in general and not specifically about same-sex sex as had been argued in Bowers. Consensual same-sex becomes protected but police forces across the country continue to entrap gay men who solicit sex in public.