Lawrence vs Texas

Gonz

Gonz

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In one of the most swepping rulings in Supreme Court history, on par with Roe vs Wade and Brown vs Board of Education, the court decided that what adults do in the privacy of their bedroom is beyond government intrusion. Sounds reasonable, Hell, sounds right. After much debate, I think the dissenting Justices had it right after all. The best, short penned response was by Justice Clarence Thomas:
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Justice Thomas[/i], dissenting] I join Justice Scalia's dissenting opinion. I write separately to note that the law before the Court today "is ... uncommonly silly." Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U. S. 479, 527 (1965) (Stewart, J., dissenting). If I were a member of the Texas Legislature, I would vote to repeal it. Punishing someone for expressing his sexual preference through noncommercial consensual conduct with another adult does not appear to be a worthy way to expend valuable law enforcement resources.
Notwithstanding this, I recognize that as a member of this Court I am not empowered to help petitioners and others similarly situated. My duty, rather, is to "decide cases 'agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the United States.' " Id., at 530. And, just like Justice Stewart, I "can find [neither in the Bill of Rights nor any other part of the Constitution a] general right of privacy," ibid., or as the Court terms it today, the "liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions," ante, at 1.
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The act should not be outlawed. However, this ruling can & will cause more headaches than it's worth. The potential harm caused by the opinion, written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, leads to possible legal loopholes in Bi/Polygamy laws, Adult Incest, beastiality & others. Antonin Scalia wrote a very damning dissent. Read it. It's outstanding.

Irony: The groups of people cheering this ruling are the same that were booing them for the FL ruling in Nov 2000. :shrug:
 
I want to be interested but frankly, I'm all for total anarchy and outrage as far as "traditional morals" are concerned..
 
I might could go for that last one...
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Know what you mean, but I'm afraid my lovely wife would carve out my tripes. I don't even know what my tripes are, but I'm pretty sure I don't want them carved out. ;)
 
outside looking in said:
Then pedophilia, incest, polygamy should all be legal as well?
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Not necessarily - just the hardcore christian fundamentalists denouncing Harry Potter or Jellybeans or whatever thinking that they will be would do just fine.. :)
 
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