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Washington, DC –Jonathan Turley, a constitutional scholar at George Washington Law School has just penned what is a clear sign that our nation is not on a slippery slope toward sexual degradation and moral decline—rather our country is on a rocket-propelled missile into social chaos. Turley argued in Monday’s issue of USA Today that polygamy is the next logical step in the goal of social activists to overturn any remaining barriers to the redefining of marriage. Turley says he detests the idea of polygamy but he has put forth the legal arguments for its legalization. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,...

CHICAGO, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- As the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court last summer prepared their opinions for the case of Lawrence, et al. vs. Texas, gay activists around the country rapidly readied their online response. "We didn't know whether we would celebrate, protest, or celebrate and protest," said Robin Tyler, executive director of the Equality Campaign, a homosexual rights organization, at dontamend.com."So we had three sets of postings ready," he told United Press International. "The second it came out, we distributed our talking points by e-mail and online postings." Based on Internet talking points, which touted a ruling...

A Decisive Turn to Paganism Has the nation finally abandoned its Judeo-Christian heritage, or is there still hope? By Harold O.J. Brown | posted 08/05/2004 8:30 a.m. Recent events have left Christians wondering how they stand in American society. In the last year, we at Christianity Today have received several manuscripts by prominent Christian intellectuals suggesting that the United States has become definitively and irreversibly anti-God. Other Christians continue to urge us to do good with the hope that we can make a difference. Each side can marshal compelling arguments and strong evidence. Yesterday and today we publish two views...

Last summer, in Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy declared homosexual sodomy to be a liberty protected by the Due Process Clause. By the end of the year, other judges in lower courts relied on his opinion to establish the right to homosexual marriage. This is likely to have a profound and lasting impact on our society. Most people are aware that Lawrence overruled Bowers v. Hardwick, a nearly identical case decided only 17 years earlier. But most people are not aware that Lawrence also represented a 180-degree turnaround for Justice Kennedy. Kennedy's conversion thus provides a perfect...

RICHMOND — A Virginia Beach man convicted of soliciting sex in a department store bathroom is challenging the state's sodomy law, which prosecutors have continued to enforce a year after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Lawrence v. Texas. Lambda Legal, the gay rights group that handled the Lawrence case, filed a petition with the Virginia Court of Appeals Monday on behalf of Joel Singson, who was convicted of solicitation of sodomy last year. His challenge follows a similar petition to appeal that was filed by another Virginia Beach man in May, and a case involving two inmates that was...

Today, June 26, is the first anniversary of Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court’s tragic decision granting constitutional protection to sodomy and striking down laws in 13 states that criminalized this anti-natural behavior. The American TFP’s full page analysis of the high court’s decision published in The Washington Times on July 9, 2003 (click here) called it America’s “moral 9/11.” The homosexual movement exulted with its victory and readily grasped its profound implications for society as a whole. In the words of Susan Sommer, Lambda Legal’s leading attorney in Lawrence: “The decision itself is a powerful legal tool… But even...

Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - A respected academic in New Zealand has recommended that incest between consenting adults be legalized, playing down any concerns about the genetic abnormalities resulting from inbreeding. Professor Peter Munz, professor emeritus of history at Wellington's Victoria University, stunned lawmakers who are considering amendments to criminal law by proposing that it was no longer necessary to outlaw sex between close relations. He argued that, historically, incest was illegal because it was considered a waste of an asset to have women marry close to home. Women played an important role when one tribe wanted to create an...

Almost six years after police stormed his apartment and arrested him for having sex with another man, this is what John Lawrence remembers: Harris County Sheriff's Department officers shoving him to the couch, shattering the porcelain birds that were a gift from his mother. The humiliating ride to the station, wearing only handcuffs and underwear. The fingerprinting and mugshot, the bologna sandwich he ate in jail, the jeans another inmate gave him for the ride home, the cabbie who took him, though he had no wallet to pay. And the call to his elderly father to tell him what had...

They argue that U.S. Supreme Court’s Lawrence ruling has paved the way. The drive for homosexual "rights" is evolving into a larger effort to “expand” marriage to include polygamy in the civil law. Polygamists are citing the U.S. Supreme Court's Lawrence v. Texas(2003) ruling to challenge marriage laws. In Utah, the ban on polygamy came under attack as civil rights attorney Brian Barnard brought a federal lawsuit, Bronson v. Swensen, No. 02:04-CV-0021, on January 12, 2004, against the state based in part on the Supreme Court’s reasoning in Lawrence. Two other attorneys have also referenced Lawrence in defending polygamists. The...

The rulings of the Supreme Court in last spring’s landmark affirmative-action and gayrights cases were less surprising than the reasoning used by some of the Court’s justices. In resolving constitutional questions, the Court routinely relies on arguments appealing to the constitutional text and government structure, to precedent and prudence. In Grutter v. Bollinger, however, which upheld the use of racial preferences in law school admissions, and in Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down Texas’s prohibition on same-sex sodomy, the Court drew an additional arrow from its quiver. Several justices chose to assess the constitutionality of purely domestic civil-rights and civil...

<p>Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor drew national attention to a developing judicial trend in October when she addressed the Southern Center for International Studies in Atlanta: "I suspect that over time we will rely increasingly, or take notice at least increasingly, on international and foreign courts in examining domestic issues."</p>

Gay couples all across North America are getting married. What a great symbol of tolerance. In the name of that same tolerance, however, I believe we should go further and allow brothers and sisters to marry. In other words, incest should be not only allowed but recognized and affirmed by the state. If you're not tolerant of this, quite clearly you should not be tolerated. Those of you who are shocked at first glance should take some time to consider what I'm saying. Remember, there were at one time frightened and reactionary people who objected to marriage between homosexuals. Sometimes...

I love my grandmother very much, and I think it’s time to ask for her hand in marriage. Since I live in San Francisco, I think there’s a pretty good chance we can get the license approved. If banning same-sex marriage violates California’s equal protection clause in the constitution, then certainly banning incest marriage also violates that equal protection clause. I know, most of you out there are saying ''dude, that’s pretty freakin’ gross!'' Whatever. That’s really not your concern. How many people think same-sex marriage is gross? That shouldn’t be the measure of whether or not we allow people...

Everyone wants to fall in love; it's the stuff of movies, songs and dreams. But what if you fall in love with your cousin? For one couple, romance bloomed among two cousins who met as adults after a 20 year absence. "We ran into each other, at a family reunion," Christie Smith told ABCNEWS. "And we just struck it off." Smith said marrying her cousin Mark brought concerns. "It was very scary, at first. I thought that it was something that was very wrong," said Smith. Einstein Kissed His Cuz Cousins who fall in love have a right to voice...

Your Mom and Dad have a ton of money, and much of it will be hit with heavy estate taxes when they both pass on. So, let's say your Dad dies, and your Mom has all the money. Now, if marriage is going to be defined as an agreement between consenting adults, simply marry your Mother. She does love you, doesn't she? And you love her! You become her husband. If necessary, she can legally disown you as her son. When she passes on, her estate, which you share as you're married, will go laterally to you, her spouse, rather...

Father who married daughter ordered back to prison MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- A 53-year-old man was sent back to prison after a judge decided the man had violated a probation order barring him from cohabitation with his 30-year-old daughter, who is also his former wife. Mobile County Circuit Judge John Lockett ordered Carroll Eugene Ferdinandsen to prison on Thursday after determining he violated a probation order barring him from cohabitation with Alice Ferdinandsen. Each had pleaded guilty to incest last summer in connection with their May 2003 civil marriage in Mobile County and served six months in jail before...

Order in the Court! Gasps are coming from the Left-and even from the Libertarian Right-about the President's decision (finally!) to confront our increasingly activist judiciary. This is an attempt to create a "wedge issue" echoed the lemmings in the media. This is another Bush attempt to "divide" the country! Yet any gasps should be directed at the bench, where for decades Americans have seen their views and their traditions systematically trashed. Whether it's the issue of marriage, prayer at football games, or God in the Pledge of Allegiance, we've seen courts from coast to coast venture far beyond proper role...

A WEST Australian couple who are brother and sister by adoption, but unrelated by blood, are battling a federal law that prevents their marrying. Kevin and Deborah Jefferies have been in love for at least 10 years and want to get married. But under the Federal Marriage Act 1961, which prevents brothers and sisters marrying, their relationship is taboo. The couple became siblings on paper when their parents married and Kevin's father adopted Deborah and her sisters. "There's so many people who can get divorced so easily – we can't even get married to start with," Kevin told Channel 7....

Last summer, the Supreme Court, in LAWRENCE V. TEXAS, overturned a Texas statute against sodomy. The majority's sweeping rhetoric prompted concern that the Court's opinion would undermine marriage and virtually every other moral standard. Justice Scalia was outraged in his dissent. Earlier this month, two important decisions concerning homosexuality came down, and surprisingly, the courts found a way around LAWRENCE. It's a reminder of the difference that judges who respect the law, instead of trying to write it, can make. The first case, LIMON V. KANSAS, involved a challenge to Kansas's statutory rape law. The law, which prohibits sex between...

The real homosexual lobby Posted: February 2, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The Democratic National Committee is counting heavily on a high turnout of homosexual voters to elect its nominee president in 2004. According to the DNC's "Pride at the Polls" campaign, "gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgendered" voters totaled 4.2 million in the 2000 campaign. That number may sound impressive at first glance. But given the fact that more than 105 million Americans voted in that presidential election, we see this special-interest group represents only a tiny 3.9 percent of voters. Add to this that homosexual activists have...