Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court February 21, 2002 (Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders v. Attorney General)

Ireland, J.

The plaintiffs challenge two provisions of the Commonwealth’s “Crimes against Chastity, Morality, Decency and Good Order,” which prohibit the “abominable and detestable crime against nature,” G. L. c. 272, § 34, and “any unnatural and lascivious act with another person,” G. L. c. 272, § 35.