| − | LGBTI lobbyists make efforts to equate sodomy, a pattern of perverse behavior between people of same sex involving anal or oral sex, with a civil right.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sodomy is not a civil right |url=http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vyqzf |quote=“Sodomy is not a civil rights movement...Sodomy is not a civil right, and there’s an effort by homosexual lobbyists to equate the two. That’s wrong. It is a pattern of behavior.”|accessdate=2 june 2016}}</ref> In [[Bowers v. Hardwick]], the [[US Supreme Court]] ruled, that claiming, as LGBTI advocates do<ref name="William Eskridge">{{cite web |url=http://wtvr.com/2012/05/18/marshall-sodomy-is-not-a-civil-rights-movement/ |title=Marshall: ‘Sodomy is not a civil right’ |author=Wtvrerikaneddenien |date=18 May 2012 |quote=William Eskridge, a Yale Law School professor, has spoken out against Marshall's statement, saying sodomy is, in a practical sense, a civil right--according to the Supreme Court...“The Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence that anal or oral sex, commonly known as sodomy, when performed in private by consenting adults, is constitutionally protected -- which makes it a civil right,” Eskridge told MSNBC. |accessdate=2 June 2016}}</ref>, a right to engage in sodomitical [[Behavior|conduct]] and argue that it is ''"deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition"'' or ''"implicit in the concept of ordered liberty"'', is, at best, facetious. The [[U.S. Constitution]] does not confer a fundamental right upon [[homosexuals]] to engage in sodomy. | + | LGBTI lobbyists make efforts to equate sodomy, a pattern of perverse behavior between people of same sex involving anal or oral sex, with a civil right.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sodomy is not a civil right |url=http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vyqzf |quote=“Sodomy is not a civil rights movement...Sodomy is not a civil right, and there’s an effort by homosexual lobbyists to equate the two. That’s wrong. It is a pattern of behavior.”|accessdate=2 june 2016}}</ref> In [[Bowers v. Hardwick]], the [[US Supreme Court]] ruled, that claiming, as LGBTI advocates do<ref name="William Eskridge">{{cite web |url=http://wtvr.com/2012/05/18/marshall-sodomy-is-not-a-civil-rights-movement/ |title=Marshall: ‘Sodomy is not a civil right’ |author=Wtvrerikaneddenien |publisher=WTVR |date=18 May 2012 |quote=William Eskridge, a Yale Law School professor, has spoken out against Marshall's statement, saying sodomy is, in a practical sense, a civil right--according to the Supreme Court...“The Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence that anal or oral sex, commonly known as sodomy, when performed in private by consenting adults, is constitutionally protected -- which makes it a civil right,” Eskridge told MSNBC. |accessdate=2 June 2016}}</ref>, a right to engage in sodomitical [[Behavior|conduct]] and argue that it is ''"deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition"'' or ''"implicit in the concept of ordered liberty"'', is, at best, facetious. The [[U.S. Constitution]] does not confer a fundamental right upon [[homosexuals]] to engage in sodomy. |