Foreword: You Are Entering a Gay and Lesbian Free Zone: On the Radical Dissents of Justice Scalia and Other (Post-) Queers - [Raising Questions about Lawrence, Sex Wars, and the Criminal Law]
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The most renowned substantive criminal law decision of the October 2002 Term, Lawrence v. Texas, will go down in history as a critical turning point in criminal law debates over the proper scope of the penal sanction. For the first time in the history of American criminal law, the United States Supreme Court has declared that a supermajoritarian moral belief does not necessarily provide a rational basis for criminalizing conventionally deviant conduct. The Court’s ruling is the coup de grâce to legal moralism
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