Posted on 07/07/2003 7:33:48 AM PDT by Theodore R.
Kind Of Weird
The large amount of attention many newspapers and television anchors gave to a recent Supreme Court decision knocking down an old law against sodomy frankly startled me.
What's the big deal? It was an old law that many states had already repealed and that no state was making any effort to enforce as long as homosexuals stayed in their bedrooms. In all my years on the cop beat, I never saw or heard of any law-enforcement agency arresting homosexuals, except when they took their sex to public parks and public restrooms.
Cops and prosecutors have many more important things to worry about than, as the Brits would say, buggery between consenting adults in private.
The real error the Supreme Court made was, as it has often done, to usurp the legislative function. Moral and philosophical questions are settled by the legislatures. The courts settle legal disputes. Whether the general population wishes to approve or disapprove of buggery and reflect that feeling in legislation is clearly a moral and philosophical question.
There is nothing in the Constitution about sex or privacy. Even the Bill of Rights states that our homes and papers may be searched as long as "due process" has been followed. Ever since they wanted to legalize abortion, the justices have invented a right to privacy out of thin air.
But the court has opened precisely the can of worms that Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said it would. If the law cannot penetrate the bedroom to stop sodomy, can it do so to stop incest, bigamy, child molestation, collecting pornography, bomb-making and conspiracy-planning? Just how inviolate is this newly invented privacy of the boudoir?
How much better off the country would be if the Supreme Court would say to most litigants: "This is a state matter for legislatures to settle. Go see them." The trouble is that liberals are in favor of democracy only as long as the majority votes the way the liberals want the majority to vote. It was liberals who, failing to win their point in legislatures, ran to the federal courts, where too many federal judges, damn them, were only too happy to legislate instead of adjudicate. And now even so-called conservatives are turning to courts — as if there was a flea's difference between a liberal and a conservative judicial activist.
Ah, well, so the republic sinks ever deeper into the muck of empire. One can sympathize with homosexuals' desire to be treated as normal, even though their sex lives are, by definition, not normal — the norm being heterosexual. Nevertheless, decriminalizing their sex acts should have been done by repeal in the legislature and not by federal edict.
And that leaves us with the question of why the news media in America seem to have become obsessed with homosexuality. After all, 97 percent of Americans (90 percent, if you want to take the homosexual lobby's figures) are not homosexuals, and who gives a toot about somebody else's sex life anyway?
Newspaper people have gotten weirder and weirder ever since they gave up smoking tobacco and drinking whiskey. Most big newspapers these days even have salad bars, for God's sake, in their cafeterias, which, in the old days, rivaled the greasiest of greasy spoons. Some have even installed fitness programs and discovered that broken and sprained joints are about as expensive to fix as drying out a boozer.
But, guys, give us a break. It's bad enough to have to watch ads for cures of itchy hemorrhoids and menstrual cramps on television. Why do we have to read about buggery in our daily newspaper? Why did you have to act as if the Supreme Court had freed the slaves? The subject might excite you, but for most of us it is ho-hum.
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LOL -- That explains a lot!
Weep for the children, especially for your sons. They are the target of this evil.
If you raised your son properly, he is invulnerable to this danger.
If you did not, then you are at least as much at fault as the fags.
So9
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