Lawrence v. Texas

Lawrence v. Texas (2003) was a landmark legal case, in which the Supreme Court of the United States, in 6–3 decision, invalidated sodomy law across the United States, making same-sex sexual activity legal. The majority opinion in this case, written by Justice Kennedy, overturned the previous ruling of the Supreme Court on the same issue in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), where it upheld a challenged Georgia statute and did not find a constitutional protection of sexual privacy. The court in Lawrence v. Texas held that intimate consensual sexual conduct is a liberty protected by the U.S. Constitution in the Fourteenth Amendment.