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To: KCmark
How many citizens were being locked up under the anti-buggery laws, maybe one or two in 20 years? Give me a break.

SCOTUS has embraced the gay agenda and it will soon be metasticizing in all sorts of destructive forms. Gay marriage is coming.
13 posted on 06/27/2003 4:36:33 AM PDT by tomahawk
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To: tomahawk
How many citizens were being locked up under the anti-buggery laws, maybe one or two in 20 years?

Whether the number is one or one hundred is irrelevant. The fact that anyone could be prosecuted under this law is antitheical to individual liberty.

Besides that, as Justice Kennedy very eloquently explain in his opinion, the law had a far wider reach than merely the number who may be prosecuted. The anti-sodomy law was used as the basis for a pervasive stigma. It also was intrusive in that any arrest or conviction under the law could have implications in a person's employment. The statute also allowed a person to be declared an unfit parent per se in custody disputes.

17 posted on 06/27/2003 4:51:56 AM PDT by tdadams
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To: tomahawk
It astounds me that this is THE hot topic on FR. Our fellow citizens are still being shot at in Iraq, Al Qaeda may be on the move again, and the search for WMD's goes on. yet hundreds, if not thousands of Freepers have spent the better part of two days obsessing over who sleeps with whom. Unbelievable.
85 posted on 06/27/2003 5:04:35 PM PDT by kms61
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