Sex Appealed, Was the US. Supreme Court Fooled?

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Sex Appealed by Judge Janice Law

In Sex Appealed, Was the US. Supreme Court Fooled?, Judge Janice Law concludes that a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down antisodomy laws was based on prearranged arrests staged to test the constitutionality of Texas' law.

The controversial 6-3 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas favored the defendants, and Judge Law believes the decision was the trigger to kick away roadblocks to gay marriage.

In 1998, the case was assigned to Houston's criminal court. "Rumors circulated immediately in the Harris County, Texas courthouse that the arrests were a set-up, that the defendants invited their arrest," she said.

The Supreme Court based its decision on right to privacy.

"If the set-up were known during the case's five-year appeal journey, then the defendants would not have a right to pricacy claim, and the U.S. Supreme Court may never have heard the case, or may have decided it differently," Judge Law explains.

After the ruling, Judge law began to investigate the lingering rumors. By then, she was a visiting judge.

She interviewed many of the participants. A former journalist...