The Nation - News from Aug. 27, 1985
A federal appeals court upheld the Texas sodomy law banning homosexual activity. In a 9-7 decision, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a Dallas judge who had ruled the law an unconstitutional violation of privacy. “In view of the strong objection to homosexual conduct, which has prevailed in Western culture for the past seven centuries, we cannot say that (the Texas law) is totally unrelated to the pursuit of implementing morality, a permissible state goal,” the judges said.
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