[Sabertooth]

This is dismal, but strangely fitting, as the majority has gleaned a right to homosexual sodomy from reasoning they pulled out of their asses.

Like abortion, homosexual sodomy is not legitimately within the purview of the federal government, and legislation regarding both should be properly left to the states. I support the prerogative of the states to outlaw or legalize either, and it's a foul practice for the federal government to relentlessly usurp the states' prerogatives via the tripartite clutching for power we see in the federal branches.

There is a thermodynamic aspect to political power: like energy, political power is conserved and finite. The federal government only becomes more powerful by seizing that power, either from the states, or from the people. We appear to have reached a point where federal power is now a political black hole, with each new absorption of power increasing its mass, with the consequently greater gravitational pull fueling the next seizure of power.

Since much of the plain meaning of the Constitution is now meaningless to the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the federal government, what is to stop their ravenous lust for power from gorging indefinitely on the states and the people?

[colorado tanker]

I completely agree, Sabertooth. The issue before the Court was not whether homosexual sodomy should be outlawed, but whether under the Constitution the Texas legislature had the power to do that. Of course they do.

The reason that judicial appointments are now a Senate bloodsport is that the SCOTUS is no longer an impartial arbiter of what the law says, but is now a political, policymaking body.

[ninenot]

what is to stop their ravenous lust for power from gorging indefinitely on the states and the people?

Guns and Ammo, and lots of them.

[weegee]

Let's just do away with the legislature. They cost too much money and aren't required to establish law in this country anyway. Wouldn't even have to challenge Campaign Finance Reform; let's just do away the with electorate and let the judicial branch establish the laws.

[Wolfstar]

Very, very well said. I applaude you.

[Snuffington]

Like abortion, homosexual sodomy is not legitimately within the purview of the federal government, and legislation regarding both should be properly left to the states.

Obviously it should under the plain meaning of our Constitution. But even further, it doesn't belong with the judiciary at any level. Federal or state. This is a legislative function.

But look at what's happening. People left and right now practically beg the courts to legislate when they don't get their own way in the legislature. It's an ugly and ominous sign when the people in a Republic toss out the rule book and support the power grab.