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To: Buckeye Bomber
Alright, so here is the ordering of priorities in your mind as I see it: Homosexual intercourse > other more pressing matters > masturbation. Am I right?

Thank you for letting me know what my priorities are, but I have no idea what you're talking about here. Is this supposed to pass for intelligent discourse? Let me state this plainly. My "priority" is fidelity to the Constitution of the United States. I am 100% opposed to judicial legislation by the Supreme Court in areas reserved to the states. If you want a constitutionally protected right to be a wanker, to copulate with sheep, to shove animate and inanimate objects into every orifice in your "partner's" body, get an amendment to the Constitution. Don't back-door it, no pun intended, into a "constitutional" right by contorting the written Constitution. In today's debauched society, you might even be able to get 3/4 of the states to go for such an amendment.

That being said, I have not opined how I, as a state legislator, would vote if one of these measures came before me. And I don't intend to. The discussion pro and con for these laws is a proper matter for legislative debate. But to my knowledge, it is a purely hypothetical at this point in time. I'm not aware of any states where anti-sodomy laws, or anti-masturbation laws are pending before the legislature. Of course, Texas might be taking a look at its law (if the Supreme Court will let them).

101 posted on 04/23/2003 7:41:54 PM PDT by Gee Wally
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To: Gee Wally
Alright, I understand your point of view, but continue to disagree with it. I believe privacy is a right to which we are entitled. The 9th amendment seems to be a good place from which it ought to come. But I suppose this is a matter to be decided in the courts. One man's judicial activism is another's striking down an unconstitutional law.

But the Texas law should be struck down because it clearly violates the 14th amendment.
103 posted on 04/23/2003 7:49:14 PM PDT by Buckeye Bomber
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