Bowers v. Hardwick
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Bowers v. Hardwick is a 1986 Supreme Court case in which a Georgia Law was upheld as constitutional. Before Lawrence v. Texas, the Bowers case concluded that sodomy between consenting adults is a criminal act.
Italic textThe Constitution does not confer a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy. None of thefundamental rights announced in this Court's prior cases involvingfamily relationships, marriage, or procreation bear any resemblance to the right asserted in