Bowers

Bowers 1. The Supreme Court case “Bowers, Attorney General of Georgia V. Hardwick et al.” , decided on June 30, 1986, preceeded the case of “John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Gardner V. Texas”, which was decided on June 26, 2003. Both cases dealt with legality of sodomy, as it pertains to homosexual couples. The traditionalist view held that sodomy was against God, and did not untimately yield procreation. The argument of the homosexuals involved was that the statute violated their freedom under the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as well as the state’s Constitution. In Bowers, the Supreme Court Justice’s majority decision was that the Gergia statute which states that sodomy acts committed with a same sex partner are illegal. Hardwick was convicted of these acts and therefore brought suit to the state, challenging the true legality of these laws, as he believed they interfered with his personal freedoms. The Supreme Court decided: “The constituition does not confer a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy. None of the fundamental rights announced in this Court’s prior cases involving family relationships, marriage, or procreation bear any resemblance to the right asserted in this case. And any claim that those cases stand for children, sexual, abuse, sex, state, child, women, bowers, sodomy, lawrence, should, decision, acts, relationships, pornography, porn, commission, being, through, sexually, protection, protected, even, decided, court, conduct, supreme, right, need, men, make, laws, know, justice, incest, homosexual