The tenth amendment is not extreme.
It is an essential doctrine of our Constitutional republic.
The Federal government should not dictate to the states.
Cruz’s views are “extreme” at the Daily Kos and Huffington Post but they are mainstream at a conservative site like Free Republic.
this is exactly why Ted Cruz will be destroyed in a general election just like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock. His/their views are too far from actual mainstream America. The media is just waiting to unleash on him. This will come up. then we’ll start talking about rape and abortion and he won’t be able to evade again.
Cruz’s views are extreme and fanatical as they are seen in this particular case to most of America that is not living in a convent or a monastery.
Cruz’ reasoning that’s not mainstream and conflicts with individual rights.
1). Why does the state have a legitimate interest in “discouraging ... autonomous sex”?
2). How does Cruz argue that “the prior ruling would give all manner of deviants grounds to claim that engaging in consensual adult incest or bigamy must be legal?”
3). Where is there a legal basis for this: “There is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one’s genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship.” (Ironic, that the word marriage was replaced with ‘interpersonal relationship’ <-—THAT’S ADULTERY!) This is getting funnier the more we delve into Cruz’s argument. He’s arguing that stimulation is wrong for the self, yet fine with another outside of a marital agreement. We didn’t know that sex outside of marriage is cool with Dominionists.
The appeals court disagreed in a 2–1 decision, which held that the government has no business encroaching on Americans’ most private of affairs. But Cruz and Texas attorney general Greg Abbott battled on, filing a brief requesting a hearing before the full court of appeals, claiming the three-judge panel had overstepped the precedent set by Lawrence. Cruz’s office argued that the prior ruling would give all manner of deviants grounds to claim that “engaging in consensual adult incest or bigamy” must be legal as they have a right to “enhance their sexual experiences.” They lost the motion and ultimately chose not to bring the matter to the Supreme Court.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Texas law making it illegal to sell or promote obscene devices, punishable by as many as two years in jail, violated the right to privacy guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.
The two other states with similar archaic laws have also been overturned.