The supreme court ruled in that the right to privacy did extend to the private lives of gay and lesbian americans.

Concerning contemporary cases about the establishment clause, the defining point in determining constitutionality in Van Orden v. Perry and McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky seems to be that of

secular versus religious purposes.

For nearly the first 100 years after the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court interpreted the equal protection clause to

permit a system of segregated social facilities.