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To: highball
The 14th Amendment says

Amendment XIV - Citizenship rights. Ratified 7/9/1868.

1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Sexual perversion, same sex "sodomarriage", are not "privileges" or "immunities"

They're criminal acts and have been deemed as such through legislation in state laws for over two centuries. That is a fact!

There's no magic or secret phrase anywhere in any official U.S. document that will prove otherwise. That is a fact!

252 posted on 10/25/2005 11:59:17 AM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K (http://soapboxharry.blogspot.com/)
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To: DirtyHarryY2K

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

You've still got it backwards - the Constitution is a list of the things the government can get involved in. Criminalizing morality isn't among them.

Once the Fourteenth Amendment applied the Bill of Rights to the states, the states lost the authority to legislate most personal morality. That is a fact.

The choice is simple - you're either for less government, or more. Bigger or smaller. Smaller government means that people will make choices you don't like - that's the nature of freedom.

253 posted on 10/25/2005 12:12:03 PM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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