What State is that? My wife and I didn't have to take any blood test.
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Posted on 10/24/2005 12:27:04 PM PDT by Hunterb
What State is that? My wife and I didn't have to take any blood test.
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Not EVER, have they! LOL
So if people voted to make being of white race illegal, your would support it. There is such a thing about 'mob rule'/ as in majority rule, which is why we have a Electorial College, to prevent 'mob rule'.
LOL. But if you make it a setup, then you get to take the shining light off of the actual issue and try to make it go away on totally unrelated grounds.
Actually, other than the rather absurd stretch that it should be treated the same as if the perverts had invited school children in to watch, pgyanke raised a pretty good point. If you open up your bedroom and expose the public to it and then engage in acts that would be considered lewd in public, then it is very easy to be "publically lewd in your own bedroom". If you don't believe this, try this little exercise and let us know how it works out: Buy a house right across the street from an elementary school with a front bedroom with great big bay windows. Open the drapes/blinds/shades so that the front bedroom is visible from the street (and school). At about 3:00 pm (or whenever school is letting out and the kiddies are waiting for their parents or the bus to pick them up) get naked and stand right in the big middle of those bay windows and pleasure yourself. I'll just bet you will find you can be charged and convicted of public lewdness (and even lewdness with a child or equivalent) right there in the "privacy" of your own bedroom.
Your imaginings are based on nothing factual.
I have pointed out your hypocracy through logic. It is you are are being obtuse.
The "so what" is that in those cases, 1) those laws actually were being enforced, 2) some of those people were advocating legislative changes, and/or 3) they weren't seeking to have new rights read into the Constitution.
Farah missed this point completely, because he's a dunce. But the argument for invention of a "right to privacy" or expansion of substantive due process is asking the Court to expand its authority into areas where it should not go. And the fact that these cases were set-ups shows that the Court did not need to intervene. The changing social mores that allegedly justified the manufacture of new "rights" already had led to those statutes not being enforced in a manner that would concern the average person.
Seems to where this all started in the first place. :)
Are you married?
Then we should use them to clean out government.
Now that is an interesting comment.
How many legislators during that time that actually RAN on the plank that they would outlaw homosexual sex, sodomy, whatever? I'm guessing few, if any.
So they get the bill passed (who in those days would vote against), and the public shrugs their shoulders.
Nah, your argument doesn't work for me.
And those tests have not been a requirement for a marriage license in Texas for at least 20 or 30 years.
Paul - I don't remember a blood test for marriage in Maryland. Life insurance, yes, but I really don't remember the blood test to get the marriage license.
That is no reason for legislators to "legalize" it for the rest of us.
Nonsense. We are not a democracy - "the will of the people" only applies so long as the will of the people stays within Constitutional boundaries.
If the will of the people was to ban guns, would you be okay with that?
What about one or more "adult" and one or more non-adult adolescent?
What about one or more "adult" and one or more pre-adolescent who is really really curious and wants to try the experience?
Is it the government's place to regulate those actions?
...if you want tyranny in government, you should move to Europe or the middle-east.
but don't most of those places just not care what goes on in the bedroom? seems like leftist gov't wants to be everywhere except the bedroom.
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