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Lawrence V. Texas: An Historic Human Rights Victory, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
Lawrence V. Texas: An Historic Human Rights Victory, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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The Lawrence decision is one of the most momentous pro-individual rights decisions ever adjudicated by the Court, and joins the exalted ranks of the Court's other benchmark decisions advancing human rights, including Brown v. Board of Education (the 1964 school desegregation decision), Roe v. Wade (the 1973 abortion rights decision), and West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (the 1943 decision upholding the right of Jehovah's Witnesses schoolchildren to refuse to salute the flag).