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- From: sbgreene@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Steven Greene)
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court and Homosexuality
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.232937.25927@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <1992Nov16.183233.806@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1992Nov18.024658.5826@panix.com> <1992Nov19.144055.27748@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:29:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.144055.27748@athena.mit.edu> wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Nov18.024658.5826@panix.com>,
- >lkk@panix.com (Larry Kolodney) said:
- >
- >> > Actually, the GA sodomy law does not single out same sex couples
- >> > in the letter of the law. [Terrence Heath]
- >>
- >> This is true, and raises a very interesting point. Why did the
- >> Supreme Court opinion in *Bowers v. Hardwick* open with the line:
- >> The question before us is whether the states may prohibit
- >> *homosexual* sodomy. (my paraphrase)? Even though the statute was
- >> sex-orientation-neutral, Byron White chose to specifically single
- >> out homosexual sodomy as subject to state regulation.
-
- Actually, it gets even better (worse?) than that. As Tribe's petition
- for rehearing pointed out, there was nothing in the record before the
- Supreme Court that indicated the sex of Hardwick's partner. The Court,
- of course, knew and made that a major point in its decision. But
- technically, it had no basis in the record on which to make the
- distinction between homosexual and heterosexual sodomy.
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