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ACLU Sues South Carolina to Strike Down Colonial Era ‘Buggery Law’ that Requires Gay Men to Register as Sex Offenders

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit December 22 in South Carolina challenging the state’s Law Enforcement Division’s enforcement of an unconstitutional anti-sodomy statute. In 2003, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas that the government has no right to criminalize private intimate relationships between consenting adults. It was a […]

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