Lawrence Vs Texas Summary
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The Supreme Court hear cases that are seemly unconstitutional. In the case of Lawrence v. Texas, Texas state law on Homosexual Conduct prevented anal or oral sex between two men or two women as deviate sexual intercourse. Lawrence argued that banning homosexual sodomy is unconstitutional as a violation of the right to privacy. On April 26, 2000, the gay right movement had advance in their mission when Vermont becomes the first state in the U.S. to legalize civil unions and registered partnerships between same-sex couples. So when law enforcement was dispatched to Lawrence's apartment in “response to a reported weapons disturbance. When the police entered Lawrence's apartment unit, they found him engaged in a sexual act with another man” both