How did conservative organizations respond to Lawrence v. Texas?

Following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas, which invalidated state laws criminalizing consensual same-sex sexual conduct, conservative organizations expressed strong opposition to the decision.

Critics of the ruling castigated the court's verdict as a sign of the country's moral decay. For example, a vice president of Focus on the Family publicly attacked the Supreme Court, accusing the justices of continuing to pillage their way through the nation's moral norms.1

Both conservative opponents and gay rights supporters shared the belief that the Lawrence decision would serve as a significant opening wedge in the broader campaign to constitutionalize same-sex marriage, though they held fundamentally different views on the desirability of that outcome.1