On This Day: June 30, 1986 – US Supreme Court Upholds State Bans on Homosexual Acts

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Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: June 30, 1986 – US Supreme Court Upholds State Bans on Homosexual Acts.

On this day June 30, 1986, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in the case of Bowers v. Hardwick, ruling that states had the legal right to outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults. The 5 to 4 decision upheld a Georgia law that criminalized private, consensual sexual activity, effectively allowing similar laws to remain in place across the country.

The majority opinion stated that the Constitution did not confer a fundamental right to engage in homosexual...
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