SCOTUS strikes down Texas sodomy ban

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[Thane_Banquo]

SCOTUS sided with the perverts.

[ffusco]

A man's gotta know his limitations- Dirty Harry

[Recovering_Democrat]

RE-ELECT G.W.
GET A
FILIBUSTER-PROOF
CONSERVATIVE
SENATE!

REPLACE THE SCOTUS LIBERALS NOW!

Work hard, but most important: Pray for the people in this nation, and be an example, as Christ was the Supreme Example!

[jethropalerobber]

Wrong. They said what was and what wasn't moral. They defined morality.

uh... no they didn't.

will you please stop posting until you've actually read the opinion of the court?

[Sam Cree]

The diet ones can develop almost religious fervor. I haven't seen one on dogs, though.

I have a good impression of Atkins type diets, fwiw.

[The Red Zone]

into the refuge of reason

WHOSE reason? John Doe's reason? Richard Roe's reason?

[johnb838]

Pedophilia is illegal,as it should be, because children cannot make an informed consent.

If children can be forced to go to church they can be forced to have sex with adults. End of story. /sarcasm

[fooman]

There will be enormous pressure to make gays.

The media is already talking about HUGH and SERIES victory for gay rights.

[Antoninus]

If the Supreme Court can invent a right to sodomy, the Constitution is meaningless.

Any guesses as to the actual year our nation lost its status as a constitutional republic? I vote 1973.

[renosathug]

Exactly. Just because one doesn't like what someone is doing behind closed doors, the government shouldn't be allowed to break down the doors and arrest people.

[The Red Zone]

This is a black day for busybodies nationwide.

But it is a very white day for germs and diseases nationwide.

[tdadams]

A new category is about Staffordshire Terriers, aka Pit Bulls that seems to be gaining popularity.

Totally off topic, but you should see the movie "Best in Show". Freakin' hilarious.

[ffusco]

Is incest a crime or a taboo (or both)?

[BlazingArizona]

Indeed. Mark my words: This decision will be used by NAMBLA and other child molestors and child pornographers to challenge bans on sexual abuse of children.

Yessirree - everyone is going to drop what they're doing and run right out to have sex with dogs!

[Teacher317]

I tend to think the SCOUS was right for the wrong reasons.

I'm leaning that way, too, but this would have been a ground-breaking decision no matter which way it was decided. The main reason that I think I support the decision is because I'm uncomfortable saying that the states may tell consenting adults what particular positions are acceptable and which are not. I'm all for states' rights, but putting the government at any level in my bedroom is not exactly a good idea. They'd learn far too much! ;^)

The drawback is that gays marriages are now FAR more likely to be supported, since it uses the same logic: consenting adults of the same gender should be allowed to do the same things as mixed gender couples. A very strong, simple, and supportable Equal Protection argument.

Had the Court gone the other way, I would have been happy that states' rights were starting to be respected more, and would have been hopeful that it would be a trend for the future. I need to read the dissents to get more insight into why this decision is a bad one, though, because I trust Scalia, Thomas, and Rehnquist far too much to think that this is the only thing that was lost today.

[huck von finn]

Most gays believe they have the *right* to have sex anywhere, not just in the privacy of their own home.

Would you be so kind as to provide some information about this? Where did you get this information?

[Antoninus]

Good thing we've got all those Republicans on the court.

Kennedy, Souter and Sundried O'Connor voted pro-sodomy. These people are a disgrace.

[unspun]

The logical conclusion of your line of thinking is that the government can regulate your brother-in-law's diet and exercise regimin, lest he die early and leave your sister a destitute burden on society. Once you begin to walk down that proverbial road, there is nothing the government can not and should not regulate.

A red herring. There is nothing that governnment cannot regulate or at least attempt to, in human behavior. One only has to change the Constitution, for example, to take away constitutional "rights."

"Slippery slope" is fallacious here as in most places in my humble o.

[tomahawk]

The Constitution is whatever 9 "Justices" say it is. The sheeple won't care enough to remove the "Justices" who enshrine pervsion as a "fundamental right". The nation rots.

[Trace21230]

A consenting adult is 16. My daughter is 17. Can I have sex with her ?

No, but for reasons totally unrelated to those espoused by the moralists in their crusade against gay people.

The main reason incest is criminalized is because children from incestuous unions are more likely to be deformed, mentally retarded, and generally undesirable.

There is no such risk with consensual gay sex.

I concede that there were undoubtedly religious and moral beliefs that motivated the anti-incest laws when they were first passed.

Even though these reasons are inappropriate grounds for passing laws limiting personal behavior, there are other legitimate bases for outlawing incest, noted above.

I'm just wondering when the simpletons here will realize that consensual gay sex is not incest. Nor is it pedophilia, nor is it bestiality. The concept is not a difficult one to grasp.

Trace

[ffusco]

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