Twit!
Posted on 09/15/2014 4:03:20 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Judge Richard Posner, a federal judge with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, recently become a hero to the pro-”gay marriage” left when, by way of a “legal analysis” free from the troublesome constraints of logic, case precedent, biology, tradition and reality in general, he managed to somehow divine a long-hidden constitutional “right” for two dudes to get “married.” “How can tradition be a reason for anything?” an incredulous Posner demanded last month of attorneys defending marriage protection amendments in both Wisconsin and Indiana.
It would seem that Posner’s contempt for tradition extends to all things sexual, up to and including the puritanical presupposition that it’s always wrong for a man to rape a woman. This idea, according to Posner in his 2011 book “Economic Analysis of the Law” (8th edition), is evidently an equally archaic tradition that, like the institution of natural marriage, needs a significant overhaul.
Posner’s suggestion? Perhaps it’s time the government begin issuing “rape licenses” (I kid you not) since, and based upon an exclusively utilitarian and morally relative cost-benefit analysis, the “right to rape,” for some men at least, “exceeds the victim’s physical and emotional pain.”
(Excerpt) Read more at eaglerising.com ...
Posner, whether you like it or not, identified the flaw(s) in the anti-homo marriage argument. So, you can complain, or adapt.
We need to bring back tar and feathering.
The proper way to deal with this is a Constitutional Amendment.
Pretty much every male Democratic politician has one.
A nation that needs a constitution to tell it right from wrong is a nation that cannot be saved by a constitution.
Twit!
Rape License can go with the chicken inspector’s badge.
Peter Singer has been coming up with lots of coffin nails. Glad to see that Posner has come up with yet another.
Probably another liberaltarian who wants all things sexual including lack age of consent to be legal.
He did no such thing. All such decisions are inventing a new legal entity of “couple,” and are granting unprecedented, invented “rights” to same.
Posner, Richard Allen
Born 1939 in New York, NY
Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Nominated by Ronald Reagan on October 27, 1981, to a seat vacated by Philip Willis Tone. Confirmed by the Senate on November 24, 1981, and received commission on December 1, 1981. Served as chief judge, 1993-2000.
Education:
Yale College, A.B., 1959
Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1962
Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. William J. Brennan, Jr., Supreme Court of the United States, 1962-1963
Legal assistant to the commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, 1963-1965
Assistant to the solicitor general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1965-1967
General counsel, President’s Task Force on Communications, 1967-1968
Associate professor, Stanford Law School, 1968-1969
Faculty, University of Chicago Law School, 1969-
I’d recommend a Federal Judge Season but I eat what I hunt and they don’t seem like they’d be good eatin.
And they were?...
Correct.
Or get the government out of the marriage business, as is done in Israel.
My preference is for the latter, personally. How two or more consenting adults choose to order their lives is none of the Governments business at any level.
Any legal concerns can be handled under existing contract and probate laws quite nicely.
They don’t have much muscle mass and they wouldn’t count as brain food.
If I'm ever in Judge Posner's court this will be what I'll say to him when he asks me why I'm not standing when he enters the court room.
I often thing of tar and feathering when I read stories liberals who support rape, rape gangs, pedophilia, and of course, infanticide.
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