found in the Kentucky Constitution." The case was styled Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Jeffery Wasson, 842 S.W.2d 487. The decision was handed down on September 24, 1992. The case was among the early ones to strike down same-sex sodomy laws on the grounds that such laws violated the Equal Protection doctrine. Four other states preceded Kentucky in striking down same-sex sodomy laws. New York in New York v. Onofre and Pennsylvania in Commonwealth v. Bonadio did so on grounds similar to those cited by the Kentucky Supreme Court. A lower appellate court in Texas and the Wayne County Circuit Court in Michigan had also struck down same-sex sodomy laws by that time, though neither state's highest court had yet issued such a holding. Those cases were State v. Morales and Michigan Organization for Human Rights v. Kelley. Citing these cases, the Kentucky court wrote: "Thus our decision, rather than being the leading edge of change, is but a part of the moving stream." In time this statement was proven correct, as other states and eventually the United States Supreme Court reached the same conclusion as Kentucky had in Wasson. At the time, the decision - which was based solely on interpretation of the Kentucky Constitution - was at odds with federal case law on the same subject. The United States Supreme Court had previously held in Bowers v. Hardwick that federal constitutional protection of the right of privacy was not implicated in laws penalizing homosexual sodomy. It was not until years after the Wasson case that the United States Supreme Court revisited the issue and reversed its holding in Lawrence v. Texas. See also LGBT rights in Kentucky References External links Law and PsycLaw Kentucky vs Wasson Amicus Amicus Full Briefs Criminal Sodomy Statutes History of Lexington, Kentucky Kentucky state case law LGBT in Kentucky United States equal protection case law United States privacy case law United States LGBT rights case law 1992 in United States case law 1992 in Kentucky 1992 in LGBT history