Sentence examples for could not be criminalized from inspiring English sources

The Supreme Court's 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which held that gay relationships could not be criminalized, will certainly be one landmark.

Robert Wintemute, a professor of human rights law at King's College London, noted that the European Court of Human Rights, decided in 1981 that sexual activity between men could not be criminalized — but only after a majority of its members had already decriminalized it.

Indeed, after the Supreme Court held in 2003 that consensual sex between men could not be criminalized, many Republicans were outraged.

Immigrants are not criminals and should not be criminalized.

People should not be criminalized for poverty.

While gay sex should not be criminalized, she said, gay men and lesbians should abstain.

On Friday, the state media office released a statement seeking to reassure journalists that "constructive criticism" would not be criminalized.

A first and familiar suggestion, implicit in the way I have talked throughout of criminalizing 'conduct', is that 'mere thought' should not be criminalized: for thought is private; only action or conduct is public.

to those selling sex will not be criminalized.

"These aspiring Americans should not be criminalized, subjected to dehumanizing solitary confinement or indefinitely detained," Carmona said.

Children should not be criminalized for being a refugee or a migrant, nor should they be separated from their families.