The landmark case that legalized sodomy in the U.S. (Lawrence v. Texas) - was a sham (county, state)

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

the case that affirmed the right of gay couples to have consensual sex in private spaces seems to have involved two men who were neither a couple nor having sex. In order to appeal to the conservative Justices on the high court, the story of a booze-soaked quarrel was repackaged as a love story. Nobody had to know that the gay-rights case of the century was actually about three or four men getting drunk in front of a television in a Harris County apartment decorated with bad James Dean erotica.

Lawrence v Texas: How Laws Against Sodomy Became Unconstitutional : The New Yorker

Incredible story. I always did think it was a little hard to believe that police would burst into a private apartment in Houston, catch two men in the act of having anal sex, and then proceed to arrest them on the spot.

We were all fooled. Does this make the U.S. Supreme Court's decision less valid?

[Ceece]

No, it changes nothing. We can rewrite pretty much everything that happend in history that led to law and call it fact, whether it is or not, and nothing will change legally.

[Green Onions]

Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale

Lawrence v Texas: How Laws Against Sodomy Became Unconstitutional : The New Yorker

Incredible story. I always did think it was a little hard to believe that police would burst into a private apartment in Houston, catch two men in the act of having anal sex, and then proceed to arrest them on the spot.

We were all fooled. Does this make the U.S. Supreme Court's decision less valid?

No.

They were convicted by the State of Texas of breaking a law. Tens of thousands of Supreme Court decisions have been handed down -- undoubtedly, hundreds of those cases involved defendants convicted of doing things they did not do. Prior to the decision it might have matter, but not after.

The law is no less unconstitutional, after all.