The majority's sweeping rhetoric prompted concern that the Court's opinion would undermine marriage and virtually every other moral standard. Justice Scalia was outraged in his dissent. The biggest problem with Lawrence was not that it said, "You can't outlaw sodomy," but that it said, "You can't outlaw sodomy because anything consenting adults do is fine and dandy." In doing this, the court carefully avoided the Constructionist way of striking down the sodomy laws, which would be to hold that a law that is almost never enforced doesn't really reflect the will of the electorate any more.
Lawrence opened the door to gay marriage, and to just about anything else you can imagine, and some judges are trying to close that door. God bless them.
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2 posted on
02/17/2004 10:40:30 AM PST by
Mr. Silverback
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To: Mr. Silverback
Yeah, let me know when SCOTUS affirms these decisions.
3 posted on
02/17/2004 10:45:27 AM PST by
GraniteStateConservative
("You can dip a pecan in gold, but it's still a pecan"-- Deep Thoughts by JC Watts)
To: Mr. Silverback
Yes, and it said they were entitled to respect and even mentioned marriage as being another privacy issue. Lawrence is an open door to liberal activist judges, as seen in Massachusetts. Thankfully there are still some good judges left. But all the leftist comrades will do is forum shop until they pull in a win.
4 posted on
02/17/2004 11:03:12 AM PST by
King Black Robe
(With freedom of religion and speech now abridged, it is time to go after the press.)
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Bump & Ping. (I'm helping Little Jeremiah with the list today).
7 posted on
02/17/2004 12:08:51 PM PST by
EdReform
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To: Mr. Silverback
Bump.
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