Posted on 04/27/2003 3:33:24 PM PDT by Remedy
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:36:16 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON
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But society always . . . makes these moral judgments," said Scalia. "Why is this different from bigamy?"
Indeed, if people have a "fundamental right" to "consensual sexual conduct in the home," why can't a man take two wives? Why not three? Why can't everybody pick the conglomeration of consensual partners that suits their peculiar appetite? As long as it's done "in the home," not in the street, it's a fundamental right. Right?
Where does it end? Who can tell -- given that a ruling for the petitioners could cause catastrophic collateral damage to the foundation of law itself? All men, said the Founders, "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." If all consensual adult sex is one of those rights, either God gave it to us or some force other than God is author of our liberty.
Seventeen years ago, in Bowers v. Hardwick, when Laurence Tribe first argued for this right, Justice Byron White, writing for the Court, said "it would be difficult, except by fiat, to limit the claimed right to homosexual conduct while leaving exposed to prosecution adultery, incest, and other sexual crimes even though they are committed in the home. We are unwilling to start down that road."
Chief Justice Warren Burger scoffed at Tribe's claim. "To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right," he said, "would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching."
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"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion warning... "Have you ever found in history, one single example of a Nation thoroughly corrupted that was afterwards restored to virtue?... And without virtue, there can be no political liberty....Will you tell me how to prevent riches from becoming the effects of temperance and industry? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?..." T If the answer is no then everyone should just shut up...hetero is okay, cousins are okay, polygamy is okay, bi is okay; gay is okay, 13-year olds are okay, and one or one-hundred-at-a-time are okay, et. al. However, if a society decides that certain rules about who does whom when and where is functional and perhaps even necessary, all that is left is to decide is Van & Katherine Jenerette
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242 posted on 04/26/2003 9:22 PM EDT by Van Jenerette (Our Republic...If We Can Keep It!)
Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, John Kerry of Massachusetts, Dick Gepahrdt of Missouri and Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, have backed a bill that would extend benefits to partners of gay federal employees. The latter three even co-sponsored the legislation.
'Gay' Group Cuts Homosexual Partner Benefits for Own Employees
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force calls them 'prohibitively expensive'
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A leading homosexual activist group has cut domestic partner benefits for its employees' lovers.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, which is working to force corporations to adopt such benefits for its homosexual employees, reportedly said that the costs were "prohibitively expensive."
White House backs Santorum; he's 'inclusive' But other Senate Republicans, including Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee and Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, have affirmed their support for Santorum.
Equal Rights is the Responsibility of Every American (Howard Dean Editorial BARF ALERT
Dick Cheney, who has one daughter who is a lesbian (she works for Coors as some kind of liason for gays and lesbians) before he ran as Vice President, made some statements saying he supports "civil unions".
Cheny needs to get help for his daughter. Bush made comments, while running for President, contrary to Cheny's.
Cheney will show dean to be what he is, a man with no morals or class.
Increasingly typical of all democrats.
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