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Supreme Court Hears Sodomy Case

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Lawrence v. Texas, a case in which a neighbor falsely reported a disturbance next door in order to have police find his neighbor, Mr. Lawrence, engaged in sex with another man. Texas is one of several states that outlaws sodomy only for same-sex couples, but allows it for heterosexual couples. SCOTUSBlog says the Texas D.A. "gave what may have been the worst oral argument in a truly important case in the past decade." The NYTimes transcript above seems to confirm that, as Mr. Rosenthal has to allow the justices to provide his examples for him and he finds himself utterly unable to respond to the line of argument presented at the end of the above transcript, and so he merely changes the subject. Score: Privacy Rights 1, Texas Bigots 0. We'll see how the Justices scored this one in a few months.