as criminals.” Id. at 567, 156 L. Ed. 2d at 518. Concerns about these far-reaching consequences, therefore, “counsel against attempts by the State, or a court, to define the meaning of the relationship or to set its boundaries absent injury to a person or abuse of an institution the law protects.” Id. The Supreme Court provided guidance as to those boundaries, however, suggesting four areas where legitimate state interests justified intrusion into the personal and private life of an individual. Id. at 578, 156 L. Ed. 2d at 525-26. Lawrence stated: “The present case does not involve minors. It does not involve persons who might be injured or coerced or who are situated in relationships where consent might not easily be refused. It does not involve public condu E.2d 215, 218 (2004) (<HOLDING>); State v. Clark, 161 N.C. App. 316, 321, 588
holding that conduct charged under article 120k ucmj was not plainly private when the sexual activity occurred while in the presence of two additional servicemembers in the unlocked barracks room of two other servicemembers who were reasonably likely to unintentionally observe the sexual activity and therefore the failure of the military judge to raise a lawrence issue sua sponte was not plain error holding that classifying the defendant as a sexually oriented offender after he was convicted of kidnapping minors without a sexual purpose violated the defendants right to substantive due process where the statutory definition of sexual offender included one who had committed certain criminal offenses against a minor regardless of sexual intent holding contradictory testimony does not invalidate a verdict holding that debtors failure to list minor child as creditor precluded dischargeability of minors claim despite debtors listing of minors parent holding lawrence does not invalidate charges of criminally prohibited sexual activity with minors