Posted on 05/30/2008 5:05:41 AM PDT by moneyrunner
The Volokh conspiracy is a blog with a focus on things legal. Eugene Volokh is a law professor at UCLA. And as cases involving sex are litigated, he and his cohorts comment on them, frequently citing the law and linking to the actual decisions handed down.
Eugene appears to be of a Libertarian bent and favors homosexual marriage. This is not too surprising since I believe, but cant prove, that most academics do. To take a position otherwise would appear to be discriminatory and is certainly not in keeping with the evolution of our living constitution.
In this context, it is fascinating to see discussions of the controversy surrounding the Texas FLDS litigation. For those who have not been following this is a recent case in which Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) raided a ranch (Yearning for Zion Ranch) run by a polygamous group known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Over 400 children were taken from their mothers and farmed out to foster homes based on the theory that they were in imminent danger.
A lower court agreed, an appeals court disagreed and the Texas Supreme Court agreed with the appeals court and ordered the children back to their parents.
Here is the part that I find interesting. Modern Liberalism demands that we get our noses out of other peoples bedrooms. It demands that we approve of homosexual practices and that we give our approval to homosexual marriages. But it has a visceral, prudish reaction to certain other sexual practices, demanding that for example people who approve of the marriage of teen aged girls to much older men be prosecuted.
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Yes, lol, the gay marriage ruling is indeed about adding "numbers" to the mix.
Volokh is NOT a “living Constitution” type, and there is a huge difference between favoring (or not opposing) civil “gay marriage” on the one hand, and believing that a guaranteed RIGHT TO such gay marriages already is in the states’ and nation’s constitutions. A bad accusation, IMO.
A weird blog entry, it mentions Volkoff, but doesn’t provide links to anything he wrote, and then calls on him to respond to the blog, but there’s no indication he’d even bother to read the blog.
And his web site isn’t even in the blog link list.....
The name is Volokh. And if you will click on the link it will take you to my blog site where there is a link to Volokh’s site.
Patterico's Pontifications InstaPundit Belmont Club Captain's Quarters Jihad Watch Little Green Footballs Pajamas Media James Lileks - The Bleat American Digest Power Line Ace of Spades HQ Bearing Drift Doug RossWhich of those is his? I thought he ran the Volokh Conspiracy?
I regret the confusion. I usually put the link in the headline. If you put your curser on the headline you’ll see it’s a link.
Wow. I guess if I was a regular I’d know that.
When I clicked on that before, the link didn’t work, so I didn’t check to see where it was trying to send me.
BTW, I just clicked on it again, and again the link failed (but I looked at what it was and I could see it went to volokh.com).
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