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In reply to the discussion: When did so many (not all) "christians" become hateful psychopaths? [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)but what am I?
see Bowers v. Hardwick 1986
"In this case, the Supreme Court refused to extend the constitutional right of privacy to protect acts of consensual homosexual sodomy performed in the privacy of one's own home."
Justice Byron White wrote for the majority.
"He pointed out that until 1961 all fifty states had outlawed sodomy and that 24 states and DC continued to do so in 1986"
From the Oxford Companion to SCOTUS.
So apparently anti-gay laws were on the books in all 50 states until at least 1961. I was born in 1962.
Now a younger person might see current activites like Prop8 as something new, but what they really are is an attempt to return to the halcyon (as imagined by us old farts) days of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Not an attempt to change things, but rather to undo changes that others have made.