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- From: sbgreene@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Steven Greene)
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court and Homosexuality
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.200038.23593@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:00:38 GMT
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- In article <24061@galaxy.ucr.edu> judson@watserv.ucr.edu (Mike Judson) writes:
- >...there
- >was more at issue than if the federal government can regulate a state
- >government's legislation regarding two consenting adults. In fact, the
- >petitioner was arguing that homosexuality is Constitutionally legal, and
- >thus the state has no right to make legislation regarding the activities
- >of homosexuals....
- >Instead, the petitioner should have asked that the legislation be stricken
- >on grounds that it violated the right to privacy. If this were the
- >argument, the petitioner would have had a better chance of winning.
-
- A few corrections:
- 1) Bowers, the Attorney General of Georgia, was the petitioner.
- 2) Hardwick did argue on privacy grounds, as you suggest he should
- have, and still lost.
- 3) There was nothing in the record that indicated that Hardwick was
- arrested for homosexual sodomy. Hardwick was arrested for "committing
- the crime of sodomy," not for "committing the crime of sodomy with
- another male."
-