Writers Den

Criminalizing Sodomy

Just recently the U.S.Supreme
Court, thought to be 5 conservatives and 4 liberals (in the political sense),
rendered a decision in a case emanating from Texas, ‘Lawrence v. Texas’, that
held that state statutes criminalizing sodomy were unconstitutional. This was
of course what ‘gays’ had wanted, decriminalize their sexual behavior. How do
you explain a conservative court made such a decision, and what have been some
of the ramifications of that decisions in the political as well as the society
itself?