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SAME‐SEX RELATIONS AND THE LAW
Author(s) -
SUNSTEIN CASS R.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
metaphilosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1467-9973
pISSN - 0026-1068
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9973.1994.tb00487.x
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , civilization , state (computer science) , criminology , intervention (counseling) , law , sociology , political science , environmental ethics , philosophy , psychology , algorithm , psychiatry , library science , computer science
Decisions of individuals relating to homosexual conduct have been subject to state intervention throughout the history of Western Civilization. Condemnation of those practices is firmly rooted in Judeo‐Christian moral and ethical standards˜. Blackstone described ‘the infamous crime against nature’ as an offense of ‘deeper malignity than rape’…