What is the test for an equal protection challenge to the sodomy statute?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Watkins v. U.S. Army, 837 F.2d 1428 (9th Cir. 1988):
18 Cf. United States v. Lemons, 697 F.2d 832, 837-38 (8th Cir.1983) (rejecting homosexual's equal protection challenge to sodomy statute because criminal law also prohibited the same conduct between persons of the opposite sex).
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