[finnman69]

Agreed. There is absolutely no rational comparison between homosexual sex between willing partners and incest, child rape or forced sodomy.

It is NOT the same thing and Santorum was 100% wrong on this. I hope the wacko NAMBLA types who are the REAL PERVERTS in America try to push for legalization of child rape. They will be slapped back sof ast it will amke their heads spin.

[BaghdadBarney]

Rape is a crime but what about sexual relationship involving "willing" 24 year old male and his "consenting" 21 year old sister? Under this silly ruling this little foray is a-OK by my reading.

[Kevin Curry]

It is NOT the same thing and Santorum was 100% wrong on this. I hope the wacko NAMBLA types who are the REAL PERVERTS in America try to push for legalization of child rape. They will be slapped back sof ast it will amke their heads spin.

SCOTUS has crippled state legislatures' power to deal with sexual offenses by making "adult consent" the touchstone of future legislation. States will not be allowed to enact more stringent legislation--only more permissive legislation. Future attacks will be square on the definition of "adult."

It is entirely possible that in future challenges, SCOTUS, employing today's and Roe v. Wade's quasi-judical legislative power, might well substitute its own definition of what age consitutes "adult capacity to consent" and force the states to accomodate pedophiles who love children if the children are not younger than--say--12 years old, and that children between 12 and 16 must be rebuttably presumed to have capacity to consent etc (c.f., the first, second, and third trimester rationales in Roe v. Wade).

SCOTUS has placed a one-way ratchet lock on state power. Ya just gotta love all that federal judical activism in the name of Griswold-Roe v.Wade privacy.