A Turning Point? - In what could turn into the biggest gay news of the [first?] Bush administration, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken on appeal the state sodomy conviction in Lawrence v. Texas. I intend to comment more on this story in days to come, but here's an early tidbit: arch-conservative Chief Justice Bill Rehnquist apparently missed the closed door meeting where the justices decided which cases to schedule for argument. Still it takes four Supremes to consider a case, and why would they if they didn't think they had five votes to overturn the conviction? This could be very, very good news.