Garey 1
Stanford Garey
Judge Chesbro
POLS 3300
Term Paper: Introduction Dating back all the way to the first known remnants of human civilization there has been one social issue that has kept people on both sides of the fence, more or less on one side now is the idea and act of homosexuality. Now that it is the modern era it seems it is becoming more of an acceptable act among people who more or less live in a democratic free society. Some countries still throughout the world hold homosexuality as a serious offense and crime in their nation, and a certain few still hold that crime to be punishable by death. In the United States the acceptance of homosexuality has been becoming more common throughout the population slowly starting in the early …show more content…
It wasn’t only but a little over fifteen years later when the
Lawrence v. Texas case was brought upon the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of a anti sodomy state of Texas statute. This was the biggest landmark case for the LGBT community since the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick case, and it certainly started the turnaround for what is now and still the road to equality for homosexuality.
II. Case Background
Just over a year and a half before the turn of millennium on September 17th, 1998 a man named John Lawrence was arrested for a Texas state statute class C misdemeanor, Penal Code of
Texas Chapter 21 Section 06. “engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the opposite sex.”. Lawrence was the age of fifty five years old an worked in the medical field of being a technologist, who was also an actively gay man. In his residence that was just right outside the city of Houston, TX he had two guests over that evening who were both gay. The two friends of Lawrence were Tyron Gardner who was thirty one years of age, and Robert Eubanks who was forty years of age. Lawrence was more of a friend of Eubanks than of Garner,
Stanford Garey
Judge Chesbro
POLS 3300
Term Paper: Introduction Dating back all the way to the first known remnants of human civilization there has been one social issue that has kept people on both sides of the fence, more or less on one side now is the idea and act of homosexuality. Now that it is the modern era it seems it is becoming more of an acceptable act among people who more or less live in a democratic free society. Some countries still throughout the world hold homosexuality as a serious offense and crime in their nation, and a certain few still hold that crime to be punishable by death. In the United States the acceptance of homosexuality has been becoming more common throughout the population slowly starting in the early …show more content…
It wasn’t only but a little over fifteen years later when the
Lawrence v. Texas case was brought upon the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of a anti sodomy state of Texas statute. This was the biggest landmark case for the LGBT community since the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick case, and it certainly started the turnaround for what is now and still the road to equality for homosexuality.
II. Case Background
Just over a year and a half before the turn of millennium on September 17th, 1998 a man named John Lawrence was arrested for a Texas state statute class C misdemeanor, Penal Code of
Texas Chapter 21 Section 06. “engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the opposite sex.”. Lawrence was the age of fifty five years old an worked in the medical field of being a technologist, who was also an actively gay man. In his residence that was just right outside the city of Houston, TX he had two guests over that evening who were both gay. The two friends of Lawrence were Tyron Gardner who was thirty one years of age, and Robert Eubanks who was forty years of age. Lawrence was more of a friend of Eubanks than of Garner,