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To: SheLion
ORGIES?

And all these years I have been stressed out while thinking a hot cup of coffee and a smoke after a long walk with the dog was washing away my tensions and stress! : (

99 posted on 10/01/2004 6:31:04 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: EGPWS
Justice Scalia was simply making the following rhetorical point. To paraphrase his thinking

"Even if we accept the questionable hypothesis that orgies reduce social tension, nonetheless government can still ban them, on the grounds of health, hygiene, morality etc. "

Justice Scalia argues that the government should be able to regulate sexual and moral relations via anti-sodomy laws. He further has asserted that such regulation does not intrude on any constitutional rights (specifically the "right to privacy", which Scalia thinks is a fictional).

Remember, Scalia has forcefully argued that the government is entitled to define the franchise of marriage as being only a man & a woman.

Scalia is opposing libertarianism. Nothing more.

100 posted on 10/02/2004 3:04:47 PM PDT by Teplukin
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