A queer judgment

In 1986, the Sup-reme Court of the United States passed a controversial decision in Bowers vs Hardwick. By a bare majority of 5 to 4 it held that the Constitution did not confer ''a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy". Chief Justice Warren Burger called homosexuality an ''infamous crime against nature'' and ''a crime not fit to be named". In 2003, in another case, Lawrence vs Texas, the court reversed its decision. Writing for a 6-3 majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy strongly rebuked the earlier decision...

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