Will Bush weigh in on sodomy? (Supreme Court).As governor of Texas, George W. Bush supported the state s antigay sodomy law A sodomy law is a law that defines certain sexual acts as sex crimes. The precise sexual acts meant by the term sodomy are rarely spelled out in the law, but is typically understood by courts to include any sexual act which does not lead to procreation. . But as president, Bush may be taking a very different approach to legal questions about its constitutionality. By press time, the Bush administration had yet to weigh in on a historic legal challenge to the law, Lawrence v. Texas The Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S., 123 S.Ct. 2472, 156 L.Ed.2d 508 (2003), striking down state Sodomy laws as applied to gays and lesbians. , which the U.S. Supreme Court will consider March 26. Dozens of other friend-of-the-court briefs had already been filed, leading court watchers to surmise that the Administration will take no position in the case. Insiders say Charles Francis, chairman of the Republican Unity Coalition The Republican Unity Coalition was created as an outgrowth of the George W. Bush campaign in the 2000 US presidential election. It is a "grasstops" organization of the United States Republican Party, with a Board of Advisors formerly including the late President Gerald Ford, as , a gay-straight political alliance, had high-level talks with the White House to discourage it from submitting an amicus brief in support of the Texas law. While Francis refused to say whether such talks took place, he said that if they had, he would have told the Administration that "there is no federal interest in this case. It's a state law, and that should be the determining factor." RUC RUC Royal Ulster Constabulary: a former name for the Police Service of Northern Ireland RUC n abbr (= Royal Ulster Constabulary) → fuerza de policía en Irlanda del Norte RUC (Brit filed its own brief, Francis added, "malting malt n. 1. Grain, usually barley, that has been allowed to sprout, used chiefly in brewing and distilling. 2. An alcoholic beverage, such as beer or ale, brewed from malt. 3. See malted milk. v. the conservative case for why the law should be struck down. We're very confident the court will agree." |
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