Bowers v. Hardwick, legal case, decided on June 30, 1986, in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld (5–4) a Georgia state law banning sodomy. The ruling was overturned by the court 17 years later in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which struck down a Texas state law that had criminalized homosexual sex between consenting adults.
The case arose on August 3, 1982, when a police officer who had been admitted to the home of Michael Hardwick in Atlanta witnessed him and a male companion in a bedroom engaging in sex. The officer had been executing a warrant for Hardwick’s arrest for
statues down, memorials, when we object to the decisions? we had the decision in bowers v. hardwick which said that homosexuality could be criminalized. it s deeply wrong and troubling. sandra day o connor signed off on that opinion. do we take those memorials down? the question is, are we going to remove those monuments to justices who ruled in ways that we now find quite troubling or are we going to add to those memorials information like what is being done at the jefferson memorial. there will be an addition placed on the jefferson memorial saying that he was a slave owner. that is one of his great contradictions. martha: in many ways adding to the monuments is what becomes more of a history lesson. you think about the taney decision and dred scott, which as you read the language of it, it s obviously from a very