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From: gordon@cae780.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Georgia vs Hardwick
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Date: Wed, 9-Jul-86 15:40:56 EDT
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In article <2490@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> ambar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Jean Marie Diaz) writes:
>This is not the only piece of flamage that I've seen on the net
>claiming that the Georgia sodomy law applies to both homo- and
>heterosexuals.  However, I read an article in the Boston Globe which
>said that the law only applied to oral/genital contact BETWEEN MEMBERS
>OF THE SAME SEX.
>
>Could someone please confirm this?  If true, it seems that much of the
>hysteria coming from straights is highly exaggerated.

Right.  As long as it's just "them", and not "us", "we" have nothing to
fear...

Of course, all the Supreme Court did say is that there is no Constitutional
Right to oral/genital or genital/anal contact.  That's not too surprising
either, is it?  The implications may be greater than that, but the actual
decision isn't more than that.

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