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5-4

Bowers v. Hardwick

5-4

Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This episode quotes outdated language about homosexuality that maybe painful to hear. Please take care while listening.


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0:00.0

Corporal here arguing his first this morning,

0:03.0

bowers against...

0:06.0

...Mark Rick.

0:12.0

Hey everyone, this is Leon from Viasco and Prologue Projects.

0:15.0

On this week's episode of 5-4, Peter, Riannan, and Michael are talking about Bowers V Hardwick.

0:22.0

In this case, from 1986, Supreme Court ruled that a Georgia law against Sodomy

0:27.0

did not violate the constitutional right to privacy.

0:30.0

Now of course it's an absurd law to try to enforce,

0:35.0

but that's not the point.

0:37.0

The point is that the principle said to gay men that what you do,

0:42.0

what your behavior is, or what your lifestyle is essentially against the law.

0:46.0

The ruling in Bowers has since been overturned by the Supreme Court,

0:50.0

but the case nevertheless warrants attention.

0:52.0

As conservative activists move on from their defeat of row and put gay rights in their sites.

0:58.0

This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.

1:06.0

Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have caused our liberty to die off

1:12.0

like the Alaskan Snowcrab population.

1:14.0

Oh.

1:15.0

I'm Peter.

1:16.0

I'm here, we're the Riannan.

1:18.0

Why are these always so bleak?

1:20.0

I guess the Supreme Court keeps being bleak, right?

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