Implications of ruling surpasses gay rights, analysts say

CNN.com ^ | 6/28/03 | AP

[madprof98]

WASHINGTON (AP) --The Supreme Court's ruling striking down bans on gay sex also strengthens the constitutional underpinnings for legal abortion and other socially divisive issues, some legal experts say.

The decision in many respects deals with the same issues as the court's 30-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling that provided for legal abortions. Emory University law professor David Garrow said the ruling "strengthens and enshrines" the court's thinking in the abortion case.

[madprof98]

Those here who applaud this latest "right to privacy" ruling would do well to ponder the implications of the Court's reasoning. Clearly they are not lost on the Left.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Does this new right to privacy mean that I will be able to:

-rent a PO box without telling the government where I sleep?

-travel by air or rail within my own country without telling the government where I am going?

-after verifiying that I am not a criminal, buy a gun without the government recording that I own it?

-build a house without the government keeping a permanent public record of the floorplan and security features?

-arrange to leave my earnings with a secure company (bank) without the government having acess to my transactions?

-be notified if the government conducts a search of my property?

(help me out for other areas where we can use more privacy)

[VOA]

Those here who applaud this latest "right to privacy" ruling would do well to ponder
the implications of the Court's reasoning.

It will be interesting to see the first gay married couple on TV complaining
about how one of their kids have gone bad by joining NAMBLA.

Not to worry, I'll be there to give them a bumper sticker that says
"Santorum Was Right. Still Is."

[RJCogburn]

One might make a case that had the moralists not been so anxious to get into people's private lives, the spillover into public areas, like gay marriage would not have the seeming constitutional protection that is in our apparent future.

[whereasandsoforth]

I'm going to try to open a new bank account tomorrow. I will sue the **** out of the bank if I can't open it without my SS# being listed. I have privacy rights now.

[steve8714]

buy and eat Oreos? smoke a cigar? go a week without exercising? read Huck Finn?

[Snerfling]

I have privacy rights now.

Non-commercial only - sheep, sisters, sons, cousins, dead folk are all ok. Banking, property, guns, etc are all subject to Big Brother.

[eno_]

While I do feel a bit left out because buggery is not something I have a personal stake in, I like this ruling because somebody is going to start on those issues next.

If we can't enforce a national income tax without perverting the Vth, I have at least a glimmer of hope that I wll be allowed to perform unnatural acts with my money.

[Ferret Fawcet]

Not to worry, I'll be there to give them a bumper sticker that says "Santorum Was Right. Still Is."

I want one of those!

[weegee]

Santorum rips gay sex ruling

[weegee]

Some other implications of this ruling:

Justices Void Prison Term Given Gay Teenager in Kansas (it's not just consenting "adults")

Boy suspected of committing incest (boy is 17, woman is 22; the boy is being charged with a felony for private sexual conduct)

[weegee]

Oops, I IMG SRCed when I shoulda A HREFed... Santorum rips gay sex ruling

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Hell no it don't mean those things. Where's your head? All it means is that the US Fed'ral Momma Gubmint is ready willing and able to legislate immorality. It means we're free to be depraved but not at liberty - if you know what I mean.

[sinkspur]

If you want to get a good SCOTUS, dump the Republicrats.

And replace them with what? Reform Party pinheads?

[MHGinTN]

No, that was not the point of five of the six, only O'Connor's point. This was decided not on equal protection but on a penumbra of privacy.

[He Rides A White Horse]

WASHINGTON (AP) --The Supreme Court's ruling striking down bans on gay sex also strengthens the constitutional underpinnings for legal abortion and other socially divisive issues, some legal experts say.

So say certain liberal legal "experts"

[He Rides A White Horse]

The Supreme Court's ruling striking down bans on gay sex also strengthens the constitutional underpinnings for legal abortion and other socially divisive issues, some legal experts say.

....this really is a nice piece of spin, one would have to admit......................hey, libs are rolling the dice and want to see what they come up with.