SCOTUS strikes down Texas sodomy ban

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[fooman]

Homos have FIVES TIMES more partners. They also are three times more likely to have sex with animals than heteros.

[fooman]

Homos have FIVES TIMES more partners. They also are three times more likely to have sex with animals than heteros.

[fooman]

Homos have FIVES TIMES more partners. They also are three times more likely to have sex with animals than heteros.

[Teacher317]

Such a discussion needs to distinguish contingent political rights from absolute moral rights. Many acts which a political system ought to permit, are still morally wrong. I have no absolute moral right to lie about anything, even something so trivial as what I had for lunch. But I can, and should, have a political right to do so.

Interesting point. I wonder why the Founding Fathers did not make the distinction. Probably because they thought the two were too intertwined and inseperable. They could not have foreseen an American as secular as ours is today. If the issue of "What is a Right?" ever becomes a major public debate, that would be an important discussion

[Grando Calrissian]

Smithers - I think women and sea-men don't mix.
Mr. Burns - We know what you think!

[The Red Zone]

I can go through some silly hocus pocus and say I'm married to my cat. But that doesn't give a reason to the state to recognize the relationship. States recognize marriages for the same reason that they recognize people: Because they are a fundamental fact of life. THE WAY GOD MADE IT. Marriages reflect the arrangement GOD has bequeathed to us to create children: a man and a woman. Comprendez-pas?

[The KG9 Kid]

"... it's a huge victory for conservatives. It limits government intrusion into our private lives."

It's a victory for all Americans for the reason you outlined, except those Americans that are predisposed to snoop and snitch on their neighbors.

The busybody neighbor of these two gay guys who brought the suit to the SCOTUS just got told that they're an anti-American jackass.

[EagleMamaMT]

Re post #537:

BRAVO!! Best post of the thread.

[kegler4]

"OK, so Texas fix the anal intercourse ban so it applies to all genders. Problem solved."

Sorry, cut and pasted the wrong blurb on that last post.

[fooman]

Homos have FIVES TIMES more partners. They also are three times more likely to have sex with animals than heteros.

[Antoninus]

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

So using this logic, I guess a father can screw his 16 year old son, then? If not, on what grounds would you oppose such acts?

[The KG9 Kid]

... And are four times more likely to repeat themselves.

[VRWC_minion]

You're a little sick to be personalizing it that way.

Why are you upset ? Its currently our constitutional right to privacy isn't it ? The state cannot invade our privacy. If we desire oral sex/anal sex or good old fashioned missionary sex, whats the beef ? Why would be illegal for my daughter and I to have sex ? She is a consenting 16 year old and if she was on the pill whats the issue ? Even if she got pregnant she doesn't have to give birth. She can abort.

[spunkets]

" The fictiticious "Privacy Amendment" is a tad annoying, however."

I posted on that here and elsewhere. The right doesn't preclude govm't from anything, other than infringing on that right in a more liberal fashion than given in the rest of the 4th.

[Teacher317]

I vote 1913. If a person does not have the right to the fruits of his own labor, and those proceeds can be used against him (eminent domain, etc), then he is not a free citizen.

[OWK]

I can go through some silly hocus pocus and say I'm married to my cat.

And yet you can't even manage to define the word "rights".

Go figure.

[OWK]

If a person does not have the right to the fruits of his own labor, and those proceeds can be used against him (eminent domain, etc), then he is not a free citizen.

Amen.

[jethropalerobber]

And then there was no one left to speak up for the window-peeping blue nosed religious extremists...

slippery slope indeed - to think that laws against blue nosed religious extremists might one day be repealed!

[FreeLibertarian]

Ms. Grundy is crying in her beer.

Now she will finally have time to go take those kite flying lessons.