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You're Wrong About

Lawrence v. Texas Part 2 with Marcus McCann

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

"Times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress. As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom." — Justice Anthony Kennedy This week, Marcus McCann brings us to the end of our story of a few good men who challenged Texas' anti-sodomy law, and ended up changing the law of the land—and we ask what becomes of the peop...

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0:00.0

There's so much injustice to fight. I simply don't have time to go to the bar.

0:05.0

Self-care who? You do have to go to the bar because this is how you find out about Supreme Court test cases. Welcome to you wrong about. I'm Sarah Marshall and today we are bringing you part

0:26.2

two of our two-part episode on Lawrence v Texas with our friend and guest Marcus McCann.

0:32.4

As you know if you listen to our with our last

0:35.0

last episode, Lawrence v Texas is a case from a very recent year like this millennium

0:40.1

recently that decided as to whether states could criminalize sodomy

0:45.0

between consenting adults which can practice often amount to

0:48.4

criminalizing gay sex or the idea of it between consenting adults.

0:54.0

If you haven't listened to part one, this episode will be hard to follow,

0:57.5

but I can't tell you what to do with your life.

1:00.0

If you want to be confused, you can do that too. We have been doing maybe not a lot but more than we've

1:06.3

ever done before of Supreme Court and Supreme Court adjacent episodes this fall.

1:12.0

It's what being on the cusp of an election brings out in us, maybe.

1:16.0

And if you like what you hear in these episodes and you haven't listened to some of our recent offerings,

1:22.0

I would love for you to check out our

1:24.3

episode just recently on the Jane Collective with Mario Donagon, and on the Supreme Court itself

1:30.1

and why it is the way that it is and could perhaps actually be very different despite all claims to the contrary.

1:38.0

And that was an episode with Mackenzie Joy Brennan, another wonderful guest.

1:42.8

We have been very lucky to be able to have incredibly

1:46.4

smart, funny, compassionate people on

1:49.7

to tell these Supreme Court related stories.

1:51.6

And I'm so happy to continue this trend today.

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