Utah Polygamist Invokes Ruling on Gay Sex

AP ^ | December 1, 2003 | MARK THIESSEN

[Kay Soze]

December 1, 2003, 7:38 PM EST

SALT LAKE CITY -- A lawyer for a Utah man with five wives argued Monday that his polygamy convictions should be thrown out following a Supreme Court decision decriminalizing gay sex.

The nation's high court in June struck down a Texas sodomy law, ruling that what gay men and women do in the privacy of their homes is no business of government.

It's no different for polygamists, argued Tom Green's attorney, John Bucher, to the Utah Supreme Court.

[AntiGuv]

The Mass SJC ruled on the basis of state law, not federal law. You didn't really think I'd overlook something so obvious, did you?

[B Knotts]

I won't hold my breath waiting for the apologies to Sen. Santorum.

[M Kehoe]

Its starting!

And won't end until one can "marry" one's pet. The slide into Sodom and Gomorrah continues.

5.56mm

[jwalsh07]

From the decision:

"Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code." Lawrence v. Texas, 123 S. Ct. 2472, 2480 (2003) (Lawrence), quoting Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833, 850 (1992).

[truthandjustice1]

"My wife and I are very cheerful..."

No doubt you have a gay old time.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

And so...it begins.

[X-FID]

Once upon a time, the law in Kentucky stated that the age of consent for a young lady to marry was (either 14 or 16, I dont remember which), "unless the woman has been previously married or the bride & groom are related"

Incest will make your teeth fall out.

[truthandjustice1]

This may be the ultimate time share.

[AntiGuv]

Lawrence was superfluous to the decision, as it was to the decisions in Hawai'i, Alaska, and Vermont which preceded Lawrence. If you don't believe me, get back to me when the State of Massachusetts appeals Goodrich to the Supreme Court of the United States.

[truthandjustice1]

"Anyways. . . I never really could figure out what wrong with homosexual relationships and why so called conservatives want the the goverment to legislate laws against it?! "

Right. Homos are just a Tempest in a tea pot. Right?

[MindBender26]

How do you expect him to deal with it? Does the term "Separation of Powers" ring a bell?

[truthandjustice1]

"Sometime before puberty?"

Amen.

[KantianBurke]

See post #40. He can and should come out and say that he supports Congress' efforts to pass a Marriage Amendment. Use the bully pulpit for something other than enlarging entitlement programs.

[truthandjustice1]

Just wondering, has there ever been a poll on which religions support homosexual marriage the most?

[jwalsh07]

Antiguv, it is instructive that the first case mentioned by the SJC of Mass was Lawrence and whats more I know you are plenty sharp enough to realise it.

The path to the destruction of marriage has its origins in Lawrence, a brief stop in a liberal New England State for a majority of 1 oligarch to redefine marriage and straight through to the full faith and credit clause.

You know it, I know it and the proponents of homosexual "marriage" know it. Of course, should they succeed there will be unintended consequences because every adult will be able to exercise there new found "right to marriage".

It can be stopped but I'm not optimistic about it. I say that knowing that we diverge on "homosexual" marriage.

[LibertarianInExile]

Isn't marriage for most folks a union between a man and woman in the eyes of GOD?

Asking for government to get more involved in religion always ends up getting government more involved in religion. Why is it that government is involved in this in the first place? DUMB DUMB DUMB.

[Ronin]

Like how are they gonna enforce that one? Demand that one of the partners be sterilized? I can just see that happening.

[AntiGuv]

Here's one I saw recently: Religious Beliefs Underpin Opposition to Homosexuality.

[rintense]

And so the slide down the slippery slope begins.

[Ronin]

Bingo. Court shopping is a game any group can play. In fact, considering how this is Utah, I would not be surprised if their isn't at least one closet polygamist already on the bench somewhere back state.