United States Supreme Court (1986) in the case of Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 92 L Ed 2d 140, 106 S. Ct. 2841, p. 149, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger delivered the Court's decision censuring the act of sodomy:
<Condemnation of those practices is firmly rooted in Judeo-Christian moral and ethical standards.> 1986US001
<Sodomy was a criminal offense at common law and was forbidden by the laws of the original 13 States when they ratified the Bill of Rights. In 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified, all but five of the 37 States in the Union had criminal sodomy laws. In fact, until 1961, all 50 states outlawed sodomy...provid[ing] criminal penalties for sodomy performed in private and between consenting adults.> 1986US002
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1986US001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Supreme Court, 1986, in the case of Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 92 L Ed 2d 140, 106 S. Ct. 2841, p. 149, (Chief Justice Warren E. Burger). Gary DeMar, America's Christian History: The Untold Story (Atlanta, GA: American Vision Publishers, Inc., 1993), p. 68.
1986US002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Supreme Court, 1986, in the case of Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 92 L Ed 2d 140, 106 S. Ct. 2841, reh den (US) 92 L Ed 2d 779, 107 S. Ct. 29. pp. 147-148 (Chief Justice Warren E. Burger). Gary DeMar, America's Christian History: The Untold Story (Atlanta, GA: American Vision Publishers, Inc., 1993), pp. 102-103.