[S]ome kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.
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- What does it mean?
- Some government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.
- In plain terms
- Regulating consensual adult gay behavior could be constitutionally challenged.
- What can you take from it?
- Legal restrictions on private consensual acts risk constitutional invalidation.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What criteria determine constitutional challenges?
- How can lawmakers protect private rights?
Another view
The statement does not specify which regulations might be challenged.
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