“It can be safely said that the attitude of the Founders on the subject of homosexuality was precisely that given by William Blackstone in his Commentaries on the Laws—the basis of legal jurisprudence in America and heartily endorsed by numbers of significant Founders. In addressing sodomy (homosexuality), he found the subject so reprehensible that he was ashamed even to discuss it. Nonetheless, he noted:
“’What has been here observed . . . [the fact that the punishment fit the crime] ought to be the more clear in proportion as the crime is the more detestable, may be applied to another offence of a still deeper malignity; the infamous crime against nature committed either with man or beast. A crime which ought to be strictly and impartially proved and then as strictly and impartially punished. . . . I will not act so disagreeable part to my readers as well as myself as to dwell any longer upon a subject the very mention of which is a disgrace to human nature [sodomy]. It will be more eligible to imitate in this respect the delicacy of our English law which treats it in its very indictments as a crime not fit to be named “
It appears to me, Johnny, that the founding fathers had NO use for homosexuality, rather a profound hatred for it.
That’s a great quote. Do you have a source? I’m going to add it to my collection.
It seems to me that the ‘consenting adult’ defense, could not be limited to homosexuality once it was cast in granite.
Murder, robbery, theft...
Now I understand that it could be said that these would involve an innocent.
What is society if not an innocent in the face of sodomy, homosexuality?
I know, I know,... this will seem absurd to some. And then you see the impact on society as marriage is devalued to mean almost nothing.
We have to teach our children from kindergarten on, that homosexuality is as valid as heterosexuality. In effect, we have to assault the most vulnerable in our society, to codify the normalcy of consenting adults.
The innocent third party is therefore exposed, and indefensible...
This is a road marker. Societies that reach the stage where perversion is accepted with open arms, are already over the cliff, and simply awaiting the thud.