ATLANTA — Former Attorney General Michael J. Bowers of Georgia has already earned an enduring — his critics would say notorious — place in gay rights history.
As the state’s chief lawyer in the 1980s, he vigorously defended its anti-sodomy law. It is his name that graces Bowers v. Hardwick, the 1986 Supreme Court decision that upheld such laws nationwide and, to many, gave cover for other kinds of discrimination against gays and lesbians until the court reversed course in 2003.
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