| − | 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. | + | 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><ref name="FRC2007">{{cite web |title=Homosexuality Is Not a Civil Right |author=Peter Sprigg |publisher=Family Research Council |date=2007 |place=Washington, D.C. |url=http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF07K01.pdf |quote=The stories of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. have become an inspiring part of American history. It’s not surprising that homosexual activists have tried to hitch their caboose to the “civil rights” train. They do this in the context of efforts to change the definition of marriage in order to allow same-sex “marriages” (by comparing same-sex “marriage” to interracial marriage) and efforts to pass “hate crime” laws (which stigmatize opposition to homosexual behavior as a form of “hate” comparable to racism). |accessdate=18 Nov 2014}}</ref><ref name="Sprigg2004">{{cite book |title=Outrage: How Gay Activists and Liberal Judges are Trashing Democracy to Redefine Marriage |author=Peter Sprigg |publisher=Regnery |year=2004 |place=Washington, D.C. |isbn= 978-08952-60215 |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=2HqwAAAAIAAJ |quote=…the Supreme Court has never declared sexual orientation to be a protected class under civil rights laws… }}</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. |