SCOTUS strikes down Texas sodomy ban

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[Thane_Banquo]

SCOTUS sided with the perverts.

[jimt]

Please explain why my 16 year old daughter and I cannot have sex.

'Cause in Texas your wife would shoot you and be no-billed by the grand jury?

Because your neighbors would shun you and businesses refuse to serve you were it to become known?

Because you'd be excommunicated by your church?

Seriously, if under the age of consent, it violates the child's rights as they're not capable of consenting, if over the age of consent, because the state has a compelling interest in preventing the types of disabilities prevalent in births from incestual sexual contacts.

[ffusco]

NPR has some decent programs- like engines of ingenuity. Plus sometimes I like to listen in on the other camp to get a head of steam before I post.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Godless atheist HOMOSEXUAL? Is that you?

[MineralMan]

"Regardless of the type of person that wants to have sex with their daughter, is there really any serious consideration being given to overturning the Incest laws in this country?"

No, none. The rules against first cousins marrying have changed over the years, though. While that was once considered to be incest, it is no longer in a lot of states, where first cousins can marry if they wish. Other states prohibit such marriages, and there is an active effort to reform those laws, particularly since current research shows very little increased risk of birth defects in first cousin matings.

But other incest? Nah...nobody's working on changing that legislation. It's still not enforced, except when a child is involved, though.

[rwfromkansas]

Thanks for the correction. I get frustrated when these fake quotes get tossed around.

[yonif]

but I thought they all changed it to 21.

There is a federal law that states you must be 21 to drink.

[Thorondir]

Lke I said, the "sickness is good" crowd is here and all jazzed up. Good to see the list is not changed except for a few recent additions.

I'll wave and smile as I drive in perfect health past the AIDS clinic.

8o)

BTW: A biological malfunction is not an "orientation". It's a sickness and a DISorientation. Sick people cannot be reasoned with.

[Roscoe]

Actually, its "compassionate conservatives"

Ginsburg, Souter, Browne.

[ffusco]

Public shame is a great restraint on some folks. I say bring back the pillory for certain crimes, such as Drunk Driving, shoplifting and so on.

[RAT Patrol]

The problem with your "two guys having poop-sex in their own appartment doesn't harm anyone" argument is that they leave that appartment frequently with diseases and social behaviors that we all have to finance. Now, if they lived on their own island maybe you would have an argument.

"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." -Patrick Henry

[huck von finn]

This is a big big loss for our side.

The homosexuals and liberals on the Supreme Court who were appointed by Republicans lost this one for us.

This isn't a game. This is a matter of the U.S. Constitution. It's far more important than any "us versus them" mentality!

[tdadams]

You're right. Make that 21.

[af_vet_rr]

This is a big big loss for our side.

Is it really a loss for our side? I mean seriously, your talking about a law that was not easy to enforce to begin with, that had no victims. Sodomy laws weren't stopping anybody in the (great) state of Texas or anywhere else from committing sodomy (whether they be man and man, or man and woman). There were few cases even prosecuted in the past decade.

The sodomy laws never made any sense to me, because of the above mentioned reasons, and from a Constitutional perspective and the fact that there were no victims. You and I weren't victims of this, nor was anybody else or the state or the nation. I may disagree with homosexuals or men and women who engage in sodomy, because I'm a Christian, but I seperate my religious beliefs from my Constitutional beliefs.

[Thane_Banquo]

I hope that the SCOTUS uses the same 'privacy' logic to apply to 2nd Amendment issues

I was thinking the exact same thing while I was jogging 45 minutes ago.

If there is a right to privacy, what gives the government the right to come into my home and tell me whether or not I can own a gun that I never use against any human being?

[Thane_Banquo]

Um, I don't recall saying that. I mean that some child molestor will get caught abusing a child and will challenge the laws against molestation on the bases of this ruling. And I'm willing to bet there are some federal judges who would strike down the laws.

[Thorondir]

I thought Libertarians were all into garnering an impressive less than one half of one percent in election after election, while considering themselves the cutting-edge wave of the future.

LOL!

[HurkinMcGurkin]

There is a federal law that states you must be 21 to drink.

No there isn't.

[petitfour]

I dunno why I picked you to write this to. I guess this should be for all Freepers:

Bill Clinton was right. It was all about sex. He was persecuted for something that was noone's business. He didn't force Paula Jones to do anything to him. The only injured party wasn't aware of her injury, so we should now have the SCOTUS reverse the impeachment by the House of Representatives. (not that they could) The Senate was correct in not kicking Bubba out of office. No?

Now what that has to do with homosexuals having the right to sodomize each other, I'm not sure.

[MineralMan]

"Funny. Since you're pro-homos I'd think it'd be right UP your alley.
"

No, I'm not "pro-homo." I just don't care what adults do with their genitals, as long as everybody's consenting. I do care when government steps in to such situations.

Me, a Libertarian? No, not really.

[88keys]

Regardless of the type of person that wants to have sex with their daughter, is there really any serious consideration being given to overturning the Incest laws in this country?

Not yet, and hopefully never, but you know it could be done now, with the establishment of this "right to absolute privacy among consenting adults"...