The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" id="mwAUc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Supreme Court of the United States">U.S. Supreme Court</a> rules in <i id="mwAUg"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_v._Hardwick" id="mwAUk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bowers v. Hardwick">Bowers v. Hardwick</a></i> that states can outlaw <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality" id="mwAUo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Homosexuality">homosexual</a> acts between consenting adults.<sup about="#mwt117" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-20"}}' id="cite_ref-20" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_30#cite_note-20" id="mwAUs" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 20;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAUw">[20]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-20"><cite about="#mwt114" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFBall2002">Ball, Howard (2002). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LzbVChZR6xYC" id="mwBxA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBxE">The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans: Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childrearing, and Death</i></a>. New York: New York University Press. p.<span id="mwBxI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>24. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBxM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBxQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780814798638" id="mwBxU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780814798638"><bdi id="mwBxY">9780814798638</bdi></a>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210918082646/https://books.google.com/books?id=LzbVChZR6xYC" id="mwBxc" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 2021-09-18<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBxg">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBxk">2020-06-30</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt114" class="Z3988" id="mwBxo" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Supreme+Court+in+the+Intimate+Lives+of+Americans%3A+Birth%2C+Sex%2C+Marriage%2C+Childrearing%2C+and+Death&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=24&amp;rft.pub=New+York+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2002&amp;rft.isbn=9780814798638&amp;rft.aulast=Ball&amp;rft.aufirst=Howard&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DLzbVChZR6xYC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJune+30"></span></span>