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Sexual Orientation and the Right to be Different | The National Coalition of Gay and Lesbian Organisations Case - Part 1

National Coalition of Gay and Lesbian Organisations Case: Constitutional Court Press Summary

National Coalition of Gay and Lesbian Organisations Case: Abridged Judgment

National Coalition of Gay and Lesbian Organisations Case: Constitutional Court Full Judgment

National Coalition of Gay and Lesbian Organisations Case - Part 1: Video Transcript

Video Chapters

- Progressive jurisprudence so early in our democracy
- The first country in the world to constitutionalise a prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation
- Excitement in the court - the sodomy case
- What rights were being challenged?
- The strongest opening statement
- The right to be different
- The right to be the same and the right to be different
- It's the person, not the act, that's being punished

The National Coalition of Gay and Lesbian Organisations Case - Part 1

1998

National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality and Another v Minister of Justice and Others

Sexual orientation and the right to be different

Justice Laurie Ackerman had written a comprehensive judgment for the Court explaining why the penalisation by the common law of sodomy represented a gross violation of the rights of men freely to express their physical love for each other. Justice Sachs wrote a concurrence emphasising the right to be different and to enjoy equality not through submitting to mainstream pressure to conform, but through

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