Former supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun, who wrote the dissenting opinion in Bowers vs. Hardwick, the 1986 case that upheld 24 sodomy statutes in the United States, was so confident in his opinion that he predicted his view would eventually become the law of the land. Nearly 20 years later, Blackmun’s prediction came true when the Supreme Court ruled last summer in Lawrence vs. Texas to overturn the Bowers ruling and strike down Texas sodomy statutes. Justice Blackmun, in his dissent in Bowers, argued for the right of privacy and criticized the state of Georgia’s narrow enforcement of its sodomy law.
Posted by Editor at March 19, 2004 11:33 AM