Texas
Prosecutor Says Court Should Have Let Texas Decide
Associated Press, June 26,
2003
A Texas prosecutor says he痴 disappointed that the
Supreme Court didn稚 allow the people of Texas to determine the 杜oral
standards of governance? for their state.
Charles Rosenthal, the Houston D-A, had argued before the
Supreme Court in favor of a state law against homosexual sex. The court, by a
six-to-three vote, struck down that law today.
The state had defended the law as in keeping with the
state痴 interest in protecting marriage and child-rearing.
And in his dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia warned that
today痴 ruling could threaten state laws that limit marriage to opposite-sex
couples.
But a gay rights advocate at the American Civil Liberties
union says the court is simply saying that gay people have the same rights as
everyone else to choose intimate personal relationships. Matt Coles calls the
ruling 鍍he most important gay rights case ever.?
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