 | Debran Rowland - History - 2004 - 834 pages
...indecency statute furthered 'a substantial government interest in protecting order and morality....'144 Every single one of these laws is called into question...the scope of its decision to exclude them from its holding."145 The ultimate meaning of Lawrence v. Texas appears to be an open question. Gay rights advocates... | |
 | Debran Rowland - History - 2004 - 834 pages
...indecency statute furthered 'a substantial government interest in protecting order and morality....'144 "State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult...obscenity are likewise sustainable only in light of Bowers's validation of laws based on moral choices. Every single one of these laws is called into question... | |
 | Patrick J. Buchanan - Political Science - 2007 - 272 pages
...constitutionally protected right. Following that Lawrence decision, Justice Antonin Scalia fairly exploded: . . . state laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult...adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity [are now] called into question. . . . The court has largely signed on to the homosexual agenda . . . The... | |
 | Mark V. Tushnet - Constitutional law - 2005 - 392 pages
...the other shoe dropping after the Colorado decision. The Lawrence decision, he said, cast doubt on state laws "against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult...adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity" because those laws too rested on the state's judgment that the activities were immoral. (Criticizing... | |
 | Victor C. Romero - Law - 2005 - 278 pages
...refused to draw distinctions between antihomosexual laws and others regulating sexual conduct, such as state laws against "bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult...adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity. . . . The impossibility of distinguishing homosexuality from other traditional 'morals' offenses is... | |
 | Cass R. Sunstein - Law - 2005 - 316 pages
...creating an ambitious new right to sexual privacy? Writing in dissent, Justice Scalia argued it was. "State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult...adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity" were all "called into question by today's decision." The Court's decision therefore entails "a massive... | |
 | Jessica Spector - Philosophy - 2006 - 484 pages
...decrees the end of all morals legislation," wrote Justice Antonin Scalia in his dissenting opinion. "State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult...Bowers' validation of laws based on moral choices," wrote Justice Scalia. "Every single one of these laws is called in to question by today's decision."... | |
 | Neil McGill Gorsuch - Law - 2006 - 328 pages
...court). 30. See 505 US at 852. Justice Scalia raised much the same question in Lawrence, contending that "State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult...adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity" are all at risk if we take seriously what Justice Scalia derided as Casey's "famed sweet-mystery-of-life... | |
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State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity are likewise sustainable only in light of Bowers's validation of laws based on moral choices. Every single one of... 
