Hodges, the 2015 case granting gay couples the constitutional right to marry. Texas, a 2003 case that struck down anti-sodomy laws and Obergefell v. Connecticut, a 1965 decision granting married couples the constitutional right to contraception Lawrence v.
Indeed, Justice Clarence Thomas, in his opinion concurring with the ruling, wrote that the court “should reconsider” three 'demonstrably erroneous decisions:” Griswold v. Wade makes clear that the removal of a woman's right to privacy and bodily autonomy might next mean the removal of federally protected rights for LGBTQ people. This week, that era seems less far away than it used to.įriday's U.S. This story takes us back to an era before the rights of gay people were recognized as inherent to their humanity and right to privacy.
