[RAT Patrol]

But Ruth Harlow, who argued the case before the Supreme Court as legal director of Lambda Legal, said the court was merely "catching up" with public opinion.

It is not the court's job to catch up with public opinion. That is the job of the legislature. If public opinion in Texas support this, the law would not have existed. This is unbelievably flawed reasoning. Sadly, 6 members of the Supremes agreed.

The only thing the sodomy gang and conservatives agree on is that this ruling is a huge and far-reaching win for them.

[AmericaUnited]

Looks like another AIDS crisis is on it's way...

[SwinneySwitch]

Sad!:^{

[ladyinred]

Is this "Sodomy Select" since it was brought to us by that same biased court that "selected" GW Bush as President? I thought liberals didn't have any respect for the Supreme court!!!

[psychoknk]

I don't care what they do in their own homes, and I fail to see why the government should either. The only possible issue is that gays have this doubletalk about HIV and AIDS: they say it isn't a gay disease, yet the say that Bush is trying to kill them by not providing as much funding for the search for cures as they would like. As long as the amount of funding for HIV and AIDS doesn't get overblown (i.e. it should remain in proportion the the amount of Americans that have it - these guys also pay taxes, so they should get something for their money), it's none of my business.

[madprof98]

Georgians later repealed that law . . .

Wrong. Our state Supreme Court threw it out. That court was given to us by the Democratic governors whose line just ended here with the last election.

[DaBroasta]

In a gesture of gratitude for the Supreme Court's decision Thursday striking down a Texas anti-sodomy law, gay-rights activists lowered the huge rainbow flag that always flies over the city's Castro District and hoisted the Stars and Stripes in its place.

Wonder if it's legal to burn a rainbow flag?

[BeerSwillr]

Gay advocacy groups from Alaska to Florida planned to celebrate into the night.

Deviant sex alert.

[Southack]

"The high court's 6-3 decision overturned not only the Texas statute but apparently swept away laws in a dozen other states that ban oral and anal sex for everyone, or for homosexuals in particular."

Per the title for this thread, *why* should Conservatives despair?

The Supreme Court just ruled that *government* doesn't have the Constitutional authority to ban, tax, or regulate certain activities inside our private bedrooms.

Isn't that what Conservatives want: more restrictions on *government* authority?

Frankly, leftists can cheer and conservatives can jeer or despair, but I'd call this ruling a stealth victory for reigning in the power and scope of the federal government.

The precedent set in this case could *easily* be applied to a number of other areas in which government should be prohibited from regulating.

How can the government justify regulating my love of guns in my bedroom now, for instance?!

[2nd Amendment]

Another win for the patron cause of liberalism: sodomy!

[Newbomb Turk]

I wonder how many freaks will celibrate my taking it up the a** tonight !

[Brilliant]

What the Supreme Court did was it read the provision of the Constitution relating to Constitutional Amendments out of the Constitution. Apparently, the Supreme Court can now change the Constitution to say whatever it wants it to say at any given moment in time. In order words, the Justices have appointed themselves dictators.

[Imagine]

Homosexuality:

Homosexuality is deviant sexual behavior and a mental illness.

Homosexuals: 1) subject their body parts to uses nature did not intend, such activities often presenting immediate risk to the participants; 2) are prone to greater suicide, depression and other mental disorders and deficiencies than the heterosexual population at large; 3) are prone to far greater sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS, than the (normal) heterosexual population; 4) molest young people (pedophilia) at a far greater rate than heterosexuals; 5) engage in degrading sexual promiscuity, oftentimes engaging in risky sex with many partners during the same event; 6) are engaged in aggressive and widespread efforts to indoctrinate our children by introducing the homosexual lifestyle using public schools as the primary indoctrination “vehicle” and likewise, through the movie/music/TV industry, with the dual goals of gaining school-age acceptance of homosexuality and encouraging sexual activity among children, especially same-sex experimentation; 7) view most everything through a mindset heavily biased in favor of the homosexual lifestyle and culture, which renders them mostly useless when asked to opine on matters that normal heterosexuals better resolve.

The mental deficiencies described herein applying to homosexuals shall not be confused with the deficiencies associated with the left wing democrat/socialist/Marxist/ feminist/environmentalists, etc., mind, which have their own distinct set of mental disorders.

This doesn't even touch on what the Bible has to say about homosexuality.

[Im Your Huckleberry]

"Gay advocacy groups from Alaska to Florida planned to celebrate into the night."

God help the gerbils...lock up the pet stores...now!

[Imal]

It is decisions like this that make me want to give every male Supreme Court justice a big, sloppy French kiss.

[chicagolady]

Does this mean Fudge Packing is legal?

[Old Professer]

Members of a local American Legion Post made up of gay men unfurled the American flag, then saluted and sang the "Star-Spangled Banner," as residents marveled that a goal they had been seeking for so long had been realized.

Well, I guess my post isn't that bad, afterall. They're just a bunch of red-necked, bad-tempered drunks.