U.S. Supreme Court rejects Texas Law, said Gay sex is not a crime.
In a pioneer of the Supreme Court decision of the USA Thursday that homosexual behavior is not a crime, and governments have no right to affect gay couples in “the bedroom.The decision to impose a 1974 Texas law has been hailed Sodomy rights of gays and supporters of political conviction and religious conservatives.
The court also spoke of a rare departure, it was 17 years, wrongly, by maintaining a similar law in Georgia on the Prohibition of the USA, then as “derogate from sexual relations.”
The 6-3 decision came to the last day of the session of the Supreme Court 2002-03 and was based on constitutional guarantees of equality and privacy.
In demonstrations across South Florida and the country in favour of gay rights, was the most important decision of their community in a generation.
Not only that the judgement is not valid status of “zero tolerance” in four states between oral and anal sex couples, but also weaken the laws in nine other countries, including Florida, criminalizing sexual acts for all .
In Georgia’s alibi, a popular meeting place in Wilton castles, more than 250 people celebrated the decision, chanted “Free at last! Free at last!” and “I am not a criminal.”
“The court finally caught up with what society has already led to accept and we must accept all human beings”
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