Preserve the Balance
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A state cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws. Amendment 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause, and the judgment of the Supreme Court of Colorado is affirmed.
- Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority in Romer v. Evans, which invalidated a discriminatory Colorado law
What can explain the court majority's decision? Only the newly faddish approval of homosexual conduct among the elite classes from which the justices come and to which most of them respond.
- Judge Robert Bork on Romer
Justice O'Connor
On July 1, 2005, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement from the court. Justice O’Connor had often been a critical swing vote in favor of individual rights and liberties.
- In Romer v. Evans, she joined a 6-3 majority to strike down an anti-gay law.
- In Lawrence v. Texas, she wrote a concurring opinion that Texas’s sodomy law violated the Equal Protection Clause.
- In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, she voted to uphold Roe v. Wade — four justices dissented in that case.
- In two closely divided cases about public displays of the 10 Commandments handed down June 27, 2005, she voted to protect the separation of church and state.
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