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Lawrence v. Texas , 539 U.S. 558 (2003), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults are unconstitutional .
Lawrence and Garner were charged with a misdemeanor under Texas' anti-sodomy law; both pleaded no contest and received a fine. Assisted by the American civil rights organization Lambda Legal , Lawrence and Garner appealed their sentences to the Texas Courts of Appeals , which ruled in 2000 that the sodomy law was unconstitutional.
Case name Citation Date decided Beneficial Nat'l Bank v. Anderson: 539 U.S. 1: 2003: Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. 539 U.S. 23: 2003
On March 26, 2003, he argued before the Supreme Court of the United States in Lawrence v. Texas that laws against sodomy are constitutional. The Court disagreed, holding 6-3 that prosecutions for private sexual conduct violates the United States Constitution. [5]
Until the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2003 declared sodomy laws unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas, sodomy was a criminal offense in Texas, termed "deviate sexual intercourse". [6] [7] As of 2023, Texas is one of the three states whose dormant sodomy laws only apply to same-sex sexual acts, alongside Kentucky and Kansas.
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This process continued until 2003, when Lawrence v. Texas ruled the 14 remaining anti-sodomy statutes unconstitutional. [6] In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. In the mid-20th century, gay men and lesbians began organizing movements to advocate for their rights.
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