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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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To: highball
"Criminalizing morality isn't among them."

That's the only part of your misconstrued drivel that's correct.

You're dead wrong! States have every right to legislate moral issues otherwise there would be no reason for states to have their own judicial systems. IOW we'd all have to go to Federal court when we broke the law for any reason- which would be listed as criminal acts mandated by the federal government. Can you produce such a list? NO! Because The states have jurisdiction.

254 posted on 10/25/2005 12:31:12 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K (http://soapboxharry.blogspot.com/)
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To: highball
Criminalizing morality isn't among them.

All law is based on someone's morals.

259 posted on 10/25/2005 1:03:05 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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