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To: DGray

When the founders were around, every state had anti-sodomy laws. In fact, Thomas Jefferson changed the law in Virginia so the punishment for male sodomy was merely castration and banishment (IIRC) rather than the death penalty.

They were just fine with anti-sodomy laws.

So were most states until very recently; in fact, the only reason states can’t have anti-sodomy laws now is because of:

LIBERAL JUDICIAL ACTIVISM!

You call that small government? Ruling by a few people in black robes? I call that judicial tyranny.


15,690 posted on 04/29/2007 8:16:56 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Only those who thirst for truth can know truth.)
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To: little jeremiah
Bad argument. Slavery was also fine and dandy back then. So was child labor. And other things that none of us want to see again.

Gay people, and what they do, don't hurt me. They don't hurt my family. They don't interfere with my rights to life and liberty and to own property. They do not interfere with my right to practice my religion. These things are the main points of Locke's take on natural law, which is one of the major foundations of the documents of our country.

15,716 posted on 04/29/2007 8:25:41 PM PDT by DGray
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