<![CDATA[Five Years Later: Decriminalizing Gay People -- Another Reminder of the Importance of the Supreme Court]]>

1.0 link 109368 <![CDATA[Five Years Later: Decriminalizing Gay People -- Another Reminder of the Importance of the Supreme Court]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-e-schaeffer/five-years-later-decrimin_b_109368.html Many people probably don't recall much, if anything, about June 26, 2003, but I recall a great deal. That's because it's the day on which the Supreme Court issued one of its most important rulings in the area of individual rights and human dignity. In Lawrence v. Texas, a sharply divided Court struck down a Texas state law that prohibited consensual, private sex between adults of the same gender, a law that essentially made criminals out of gay men and...

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