In Houston, Texas in 2002, police responded to a reported weapons disturbance at the home of John Lawrence. Upon entering Lawrence's home, police found him and a man named Tyron Garner engaged in sexual acts. Lawrence and Garner were arrested and convicted of deviate sexual intercourse in violation of a Texas statute. This law prohibits two people of the same sex from engaging in intimate sexual conduct (Lawrence and Garner v. Texas). The Due Process and Liberty clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment protected the men's privacy. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of Lawrence and Garner, testifying that the State of Texas had “no right to prohibit any sexual conduct between consenting adults” (Olson). Lawrence v. Texas is extremely controversial now because it proposes the idea that the government should uphold the same standard for same-sex marriages and other homosexual acts and not just for same-sex sexual relations. The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision is an important case when it comes to same-sex domestic rights. This ruling has brought to light many other eq concerns...