Warren E. Burger,
Bowers v. Hardwick — Concurring Opinion
(1986)
“ To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching. ”
Warren E. Burger
Summary
“Bowers v. Hardwick — Concurring Opinion”, published in 1986, is a work by Warren E. Burger. It explores elements such as sodomy.
Quotes from Bowers v. Hardwick — Concurring Opinion (Warren E. Burger)
Warren E. Burger,
Bowers v. Hardwick — Concurring Opinion
(1986)
“ During the English Reformation when powers of the ecclesiastical courts were transferred to the King's Courts, the first English statute criminalizing sodomy was passed. 25 Hen. VIII, ch. 6. Blackstone described "the infamous crime against nature" as an offense of "deeper malignity" than rape, a heinous act "the very mention of which is a disgrace to human nature," and "a crime not fit to be named." 4 W. Blackstone, Commentaries *215. The common law of England, including its prohibition of sodomy, became the received law of Georgia and the other Colonies. ”
