A Georgia law that criminalizes certain acts of private sexual conduct between homosexual persons does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. (Overruled by Lawrence v. Texas (2003)) Decided June 30, 1986 (argued March 31, 1986). Opinion of the Court: Byron White → go there Dissenting: Blackmun, Stevens. Overruled by {{ussc Applied: the Fourteenth Amendment → go there Topic: Discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld, in a 5–4 ruling, the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults, in this case with respect to homosexual sodomy, though the law did not differentiate between homosexual and heterosexual sodomy. It was overturned in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), though the statute had already been struck down by the Georgia Supreme Court in 1998. Wiki link