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To: carranza2 who wrote (116174)	5/26/2005 10:35:07 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 793858

The only reason the police went to their apartment was that an anonymous caller told them people were being threatened. Other articles I read talked about how the couple continued their performance despite the fact that the police had entered the apartment, ostensibly to make sure the police saw what they were doing and HAD to enforce the law. A setup? Shackleford believes that although the facts of the case are not as important as the principle, the circumstances surrounding the arrest of Garner and Lawrence are suspicious. "This was a setup to do what they want to do," he said, arguing that the sodomy law is almost never enforced. An anonymous caller falsely told police that a crazy man with a gun was in the apartment. "He leads police into apartment," Shackleford recounted, "and they find two men engaged in anal sodomy." The Texas attorney insists there is virtually no way to enforce the law because the Fourth Amendment "doesn't allow the government to come into people's homes." "This case is not about privacy," he said. "They could have made a Fourth Amendment claim, but they didn't; they made a privacy claim, to establish that I can do whatever I want." Shackleford said he has watched homosexual activists bring "lawsuit after lawsuit here in Texas to overturn the law" and the courts have said "it's a problem of standing; if it's not being applied against you, you can't tell us it's unconstitutional." "What they are arguing for here is sexual freedom, to make every act an elevated right," he contended. Lambda's Adams insisted that the case was not a setup. The man who alerted police had no association with homsexual-rights groups and was prosecuted for making a false report, he argued. "He was somebody in the building who had some kind of an axe to grind, not a friend of theirs, not somebody trying to do him a favor," he said. "Nobody opened the door and let the police in – the door was unlocked – and rather than leaving when they didn't find a criminal, they arrested these gentlemen." Lawrence and Garner are very private people," he said, "They aren't out in front of any gay pride parade." worldnetdaily.com