The Supreme Court's ruling in Bowers v.Hardwick suggested that the right to privacy does not protect

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The Supreme Court's ruling in Bowers v. Hardwick suggested that the right to privacy does not protect homosexual relations. The case involved a Georgia law criminalizing sodomy, and the Supreme Court upheld the law as a constitutional exercise of state power. The ruling was widely criticized for its disregard of privacy and individual rights. However, it was eventually overruled by the Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which held that anti-sodomy laws violated an individual's liberty and privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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