The Pros And Cons Of Sodomy

The sweltering sun beat down as the crowd gathered in the streets. There were people chanting and waving signs. “Gay and Proud of it!” one sign read, while others read “God Does Not Hate” and “Equal Rights for ALL!” A tall man with blonde spiky hair had one arm raised, giving the “thumbs up” sign, as he leaned in for a kiss and reached for the hand his male partner. A gay couple standing behind them was holding a sign that read “52 years together. Let Us Get MARRIED!” They were surrounded by other men who were waiving rainbow flags, the symbol for gay pride, and dancing around to the rhythm of whatever moved them. There were women smiling and holding hands as they proudly walked past a group of protesters, who were shouting obscenities. It seemed as if they could not be defied in their movement to expresses their desire for the laws to …show more content…
Hardwick 478 U.S. 186 (1986), which is a court case that denies the protection of constitutional privacy to gays and lesbians, and it is often cited when used by states that continue to criminalize homosexual sodomy. It set the foundation for states and the federal government to discriminate against homosexuals. States can recognize certain marriages, only because they want to, not because they have to. Sodomy laws are usually the most commonly used laws to discriminate against gays. They prohibit anal, sex and in some cases oral sex, by labeling them as criminal acts even though they are done in the privacy of their own homes. “However, all this changed in 2003, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided Lawrence and Garner v. Texas, a case in which two gay men were prosecuted under Texas’s anti-sodomy law. The Supreme Court overturned the conviction as well as the Texas sodomy law, deciding that sodomy laws violate the due process protection of the Unites States Constitution. Under this decision, state sodomy laws are no longer valid, even if they are still in the books.” (McWhorter Sember