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Re:Google Doodle Upholds Gay Rights Ahead of Sochi Olympics by magicalist on Friday February 07, 2014 @08:35AM (#7196145)
Moreover, being homosexual was never illegal in the first place; it was sodomy laws that made gay sex (and, in many cases, any non-vaginal sex by anyone) a crime.

These laws were used as tools to specifically target gay people, but I make the distinction because gay speech, the issue in Russia right now, has always been protected by the first amendment.

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Re:Google Doodle Upholds Gay Rights Ahead of Sochi Olympics by einhverfr on Friday February 07, 2014 @09:05AM (#7196249)
Interestingly, Justice O'Connor filed an opinion concurring in judgement in Lawrence where she would have only struck down laws that singled out same-sex conduct, allowing laws to remain on the books if they included opposite-sex conduct too.
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