Thanks for being an advocate for young adults

Hello Susie I just read a half dozen of your articles, including the "Girl with the Tattoo" with mention of the men in your life. I will read the other articles in the next couple of days. Thanks for your honesty and your strong advocacy for girls and women. Given the recent "gay marriage" victory in the state of New York, perhaps it is time to review the Supreme Court decision in which sodomy was decriminalized. Justice Kennedy is a hero and Scalia is shown to be backward. Also, it demonstrates his willingness to abuse the law to defend his narrow Christian attitudes. Lawrence v Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003),[1] is a landmark United States Supreme Court case. In the 6-3 ruling, the Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas. The court had previously addressed the same issue in 1986 in Bowers v. Hardwick, where it upheld a challenged Georgia statute, not finding a constitutional protection of sexual privacy. Lawrence explicitly overruled Bowers, holding that it had viewed the liberty interest too narrowly. The majority held that intimate consensual sexual conduct was part of the liberty protected by substantive due process under the Fourteenth Amendment. Lawrence has the effect of invalidating similar laws throughout the United States that purport to criminalize sodomy between consenting same-sex adults acting in private. It also invalidated the application of sodomy laws to heterosexual sex.[2] The case attracted much public attention, and a large number of amici curiae ("friends of the court") briefs were filed. Its outcome was celebrated by gay rights advocates, who hoped that further legal advances might result as a consequence.

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