Top US court strikes down gay sex ban as unconstitutional
The 6-3 ruling reverses course from a ruling 17 years ago that states could punish homosexuals for what such laws historically called deviant sex.
Laws forbidding homosexual sex are now rare. Those on the books are rarely enforced but underpin other kinds of discrimination, lawyers for two Texas men had argued. The men "are entitled to respect for their private lives", Kennedy wrote. "The state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime."
