(OBIT) Defendant in landmark sodomy ruling was not motivated by politics (Lawrence v. Texas case)

Houston Chronicle ^ | Sept. 14, 2006, 12:05AM | By ZEKE MINAYA

[ahayes]

Thanks, I prefer it when it's not necessary. ;-)

[ahayes]

Kozak points out that he suffered with meningitis for six months, so it wasn't bacterial meningitis but possibly viral meningitis caused by the HIV virus, so he may actually have caught meningitis by this route in a circuitous fashion, making me doubly wrong!

[Kozak]

TB and fungal meningitis are also high on the list of things people get as secondary infections from AIDS.

[bigfootbob]

I have to give you credit. It takes a stand-up person to make amends for being testy. Best Regards.

[ahayes]

No problem and thank you.

[Old Professer]

From the web, Medical Microbiology:

"Retroviruses

Human immunodeficiency virus can cause acute and progressive CNS disease. HTLV-I causes chronic spastic paraparesis in a small number of infected persons."

One of many possibilities along with other STDs or simple bacterial infection.

[ahayes]

I would think TB would be the least likely just because TB is not very common in the US. From my reading HIV meningitis is very common in people who are HIV positive and often kind of comes and goes multiple times. Cryptococcal meningitis is common and often fatal. My guess is that would be the most likely, what do you think?

[Old Professer]

Baacterial menigitis is rather quick if not treated immediately; retroviruses can linger on.

[little jeremiah]

AND - they had tried to get cops to come before and witness their sodomy just to get a case going. This was not their first attempt.

The article is a lie.

[little jeremiah]

I wonder about the writer of this article...

(I'd do some research but we're super busy right now...)

[JRios1968]

I want to apologize.

Classy (no sarcasm,) as befits a real FReeper.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I must have never heard of the latter since every case of meningitis I have heard of the deaths are within days or even less.

[trumandogz]

"The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives. The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime. Their right to liberty under the Due Process Clause gives them the full right to engage in their conduct without intervention of the government."

Where in the Constitution does it say that the State cannot control a person's destiny?

[Trillian]

Hmm.. lengthy illness = the AIDS?

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[sappy]

Men In Gitis.