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From Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, June 26, 2003: In 2001, a blue ribbon panel of military law experts called for repeal of the sodomy statute on the fiftieth anniversary of the UCMJ, calling its enforcement “arbitrary, even vindictive.” The armed…
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From Integrity USA, June 26, 2003: We would point out that no major US Christian denomination supported Texas in this appeal. The days of Christian-supported legal discrimination against gay and lesbian people in the United States seem to be waning,…
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From the Cato Institute: In a 6-3 decision delivered today, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law prohibiting consensual sex between partners of the same sex. The Cato Institute filed an amicus brief in January in support of the…
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From Exodus, June 26, 2003 Exodus encourages fellow Christians to respond with compassion and reason on this historic turn in public policy regarding homosexuality. While many Christians and conservatives express shock and dismay over today’s ruling, ex-gays are not surprised….
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From the Family Research Council: By extending legal protections to homosexual behavior, the court majority not only struck down the 1986 precedent in Bowers v. Hardwick that upheld Georgia’s anti-sodomy law; the court also demolished the legal foundation of marriage….
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From Soulforce, a national interfaith organization: “This is a fantastic day for all people because the Supreme Court has recognized that our government has no place in our bedrooms, nor a right to selectively single out people of minority sexual…
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FRC’s Ken Connor describes the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, including no less than five conservatives, as “judicial activists” and “unelected warriors wearing black robes.” “Once again judicial activists have used their fertile imagination to create rights that simply…
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JUSTICE THOMAS, dissenting. I join JUSTICE SCALIA’s dissenting opinion. I write separately to note that the law before the Court today ‘is … uncommonly silly.’ Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U. S. 479, 527 (1965) (Stewart, J., dissenting). If I were…