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To: Asclepius

You don't want others "shoving" their "versions" down *your* throat, but you seem quite comfortable enforcing your version as an article of public policy.

Center for the Original Intent of the ConstitutionIt is a settled constitutional principle within our federal republic that states possess general police powers. Inherent within these powers lies the duty to regulate the "health, safety, and morals" of their members. Barnes v. Glen Theater, 501 U. S. 560, 569 (1991) (referencing public indecency statutes which were designed to protect morals and public order). States have used this police power to promote marriage and direct the sexual activities of their citizens into marriage by criminalizing a wide variety of nonmarital sex acts, such as polygamy, rape, fornication, adultery, prostitution and incest. While crimes such as rape and incest are not consensual, adultery, prostitution, polygamy and fornication are private acts between consenting adults that have been regulated throughout our nation's history. As we shall demonstrate, states have possessed and properly exercised the authority to regulate deviate sexual conduct including sodomy at all relevant times in our nation's history.

 

 

16 posted on 04/28/2003 3:02:13 PM PDT by Remedy
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To: Remedy
... Inherent within these powers lies the duty to regulate the "health, safety, and morals" of their members ...
Cool. So if a majority of Americans decided that what you would want to call devient sexual conduct were, indeed, "moral," then they could pass regulations criminalizing your lifestyle.

I like it. It's like what happened in Iran: if a majority wants an Islamic state, well, hey, that's democracy.
23 posted on 04/28/2003 3:07:47 PM PDT by Asclepius (to the barricades)
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