BLAME THE GOP FOR PRO-SODOMY COURT DECISION

The Heustis Update ^ | June 27, AD 2003 | Reed R. Heustis, Jr.

[Polycarp]

BLAME THE GOP FOR PRO-SODOMY COURT DECISION By: Reed R. Heustis, Jr. June 27, AD 2003

With one stroke of the pen, [homosexuality] has triumphed at the Supreme Court.

And guess what?

Republican-appointed Justices are to blame.

With a convincing 6-3 decision in Lawrence v. Texas, the United States Supreme Court on June 26 overturned a 1986 case, Bowers v. Hardwick, which had upheld the legitimacy of an anti-sodomy law. Sodomites and perverts all across America are hailing the Lawrence decision as the biggest gay rights victory in our nation's history.

Mitchell Katine, the openly gay attorney representing John Lawrence and Tyron Garner, the men whose arrest in 1998 led to the decision, proclaimed, "this is a day of independence."

Whereas homosexual deviancy has long been celebrated in the media and on our university campuses over the last two decades, the Johnny-come-lately Supreme Court now joins the orgy. As dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia correctly stated, "The court has taken sides in the culture war...."

How could this have happened?

Weren't Republicans supposed to be the champions of traditional values?

Weren't Republicans supposed to be the stalwart defenders of our nation's Christian heritage?

Seriously, just think:

Every four years without fail, the Republican Party instructs Christians to elect Republicans to office so that we can thwart the left wing agenda of the Democratic Party.

Every four years without fail, the Republican Establishment warns its rank and file never to vote for a third party candidate, lest we elect a Democrat by default by "giving him the election".

Every four years without fail, Christians are told that third party candidates cannot win, and that a vote for a third party candidate is somehow a vote for the Democrat.

Every four years without fail, Christians are bamboozled into believing that their beloved Republican Party will restore this nation to its Christian heritage.

Every four years without fail, we are told that only a Republican can appoint a conservative Justice to the high bench so that liberalism can be stopped cold.

Without fail.

Christians, wake up!

It is the Republican Party that is responsible for moronic decisions such as Lawrence. Quit blaming the liberals and the Democrats. Blame the GOP!

Out of the six Justices that formed the horrifying 6-3 Lawrence majority, four were appointed by Republicans! Four!

Justice John Paul Stevens was nominated by President Gerald Ford - a Republican.

Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy were nominated by President Ronald Reagan - a Republican.

Justice David Souter was nominated by President George H.W. Bush - a Republican.

Two-thirds of the majority opinion were Republican-appointed!

"I believe this needs to be trumpeted," says Tim Farness, 1st District Representative of the Constitution Party of Wisconsin.

Indeed it does.

A 4-2 majority of the six Justices forming the Lawrence decision was Republican-appointed.

Republican President George W. Bush intends to run for a second term in 2004. Don't be too surprised when we start hearing the same-old song and dance all over again: "Elect Republicans so that we can defeat the Democratic agenda."

Mr. President: the Republican Party is the Democratic agenda.

© AD 2003 The Heustis Update, accessible on the web at www.ReedHeustis.com. All Rights Reserved.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Slap yourself and get a grip on reality, your hystrionics are embarrassing. You try to seriously claim the GOP is going to drop its pro-life stance, but you completely forget that only a few weeks ago a PBA ban was FINALLY passed, because we finally got a GOP controlled House and Senate. My what short memories. Let one thing go wrong, and all of a sudden the "what have you done for me in the last second" whiners come pouring out of the woodwork.

"Manna, manna, all we have is manna. Why were brought into the wilderness to die? Was it better for us to continue to suffer in Egypt?"

But hey, just go flying off the handle with ya'll's emotions, maybe ya'll can build a 3rd party golden calf.

[tpaine]

The Supreme Court could very well have held that evidence coming from that kind of forcible entry could not be used in a sex case without violating due process (through violating privacy). A narrow decision that did not strike down sodomy laws would have been easy to write.
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Easy? Of course.

But the constitutional principle that life, liberty and property cannot be denied by fed/state/local 'laws' that violate due process, -- must be upheld.
Obviously, the court felt that the case in question defined that principle in private sexual matters.

Let us hope that the same principle can now be used to strike down the 'wars' on guns, drugs, and 'sin' that our prohibitionist brethren insist on fighting.

[YoungKentuckyConservative]

Shadows of Power by James Perloff and Global Tyranny: Step by Step

Thank you for the suggested reading. I've been keenly aware of the push for the New World Order, although I'm not nearly as informed as to who all the players are. I know I see the same diligent push under this administration and things don't appear to be "undoing" themselves. I wonder daily how many more years we have of freedom before the real persecution begins.

Thanks again for the books. Just ordered them from www.half.com.

[Bogolyubski]

The consistent problem with third party movements is that they are always gunning for the presidency when their efforts would be much better directed at gaining a voting block in the legislative branch at both the state and federal levels. If 50 percent of the sitting Repubs in the house were actually members of the Constitutional party (for example), the ruling elite of the Republicans would have to deal seriously with conservatives instead of emitting an endless stream of lip-service, empty promises, and lies.

Until such an alternative party really starts to get some traction, conservatives have little choice but to battle as hard as they can during the primary season. It's really not such a great idea to switch parties at primary time just so one can have the fun of boosting Al Sharpton's numbers. RINO hunting is a much better way to spend the primary season. For this voter and his family, primary season is RINO season.

[aristeides]

I thought Maryland had a sodomy law.

[deport]

I have no idea.... I've seen 13 as the number in some of the articles relating to this case/decision... Someone posted this graphic on another thread. So I have no idea as to the Code in MD.

[TexasCowboy]

"Yea, keep your nose stuck in the air, and see what you will soon be smelling."

We're on a steady march toward socialism with either political party.
The Republicans are in route step; the Democrats are in double time.
The destination is the same.
Do you want to face it now, or let your kids take care of the problem?

[Ahban]

from the Constitution Party Platform...

State Sovereignty

Our federal republic was created by joint action of the several states. It has been gradually perverted into a socialist machine for federal control in the domestic affairs of the states.

The federal government has no authority to mandate policies relating to state education, natural resources, transportation, private business, housing, health care, ad infinitum


and from our Preamble to the platform....

Preamble

We, the members of the Constitution Party, gratefully acknowledge the blessing of the Lord God as Creator, Preserver and Ruler of the Universe and of this Nation. We solemnly declare that the foundation of our political position and moving principle of our political activity is our full submission and unshakable faith in our Savior and Redeemer, our Lord Jesus Christ. We hereby appeal to Him for mercy, aid, comfort, guidance and the protection of His Divine Providence as we work to restore and preserve this Nation as a government of the People, by the People, and for the People.

The U.S. Constitution established a Republic under God, rather than a democracy.

Our Republic is a nation governed by a Constitution that is rooted in Biblical law, administered by representatives who are Constitutionally elected by the citizens.

In a Republic governed by Constitutional law rooted in Biblical law, all Life, Liberty and Property are protected because law rules.

We affirm the principles of inherent individual rights upon which these United States of America were founded:

• That each individual is endowed by his Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are the rights to Life, Liberty, Property and the Pursuit of the individual’s personal interest;

• That the freedom to own, use, exchange, control, protect, and freely dispose of Property is a natural, necessary and inseparable extension of the individual’s unalienable rights;

• That the legitimate function of government is to secure these rights through the preservation of domestic tranquility, the maintenance of a strong national defense, and the promotion of equal justice for all;

• That history makes clear that left unchecked, it is the nature of government to usurp the liberty of its citizens and eventually become a major violator of the people’s rights; and

• That, therefore, it is essential to bind government with the chains of the Constitution and carefully divide and jealously limit government powers to those assigned by the consent of the governed.

[aristeides]

Article in today's Washington Post on how convenient these decisions are for the Republicans: Court That Liberals Savage Proves to Be Less of a Target . As I heard somebody (Jonah Goldberg?) say on one of the talk shows today, I suspect Karl Rove is overjoyed.

Matter of fact, I wonder if that explains the number of new posters showing up here on FR these days to praise these decisions. Last time I remeber something like that happening is when the White House was after Trent Lott. (At least the new posters of that time quickly went away after the flap was over. Maybe that will happen again.)

[marajade]

So its not in the platform....

[No Dems 2004]

Unfortunately, this article serves very little purpose.

The truth is that, if the Republican Presidents weren't filibustered and harrassed by Senate Dems, there very likely would be a highly different outcome:

Look at the 6 justices who swayed with the fairies:

Stevens (appointed by Republican Gerald Ford - however, Ford is a very liberal Republican and he was from an era before the conservative Reagan Revolution)

Breyer (DEMOCRATIC CLINTON APPOINTEE WHO NEVER FAILS TO DISAPPOINT US)

Ginsburg (DEMOCRATIC CLINTON APPOINTEE WHO NEVER FAILS TO DISAPPOINT US)

Souter (GH Bush appointee - exception to my point)

Kennedy (Reagan's compromise appointee after Robert Bork was rejected by Dem Senate) - Do we think that Bork would have sided with the gays?

O'Connor (Reagan's stupid nominee - however, it's NB to note that O'Connor originally supported the 1986 decision in the right direction)


And the 3 who dissented:

Scalia: Reagan appointee

Thomas: GH Bush appointee

Rehnquist: Nixon appointee (Nixon was extrememly anti-gay)

All in all, it's clear that the modern GOP appointees are better than either of the Dem nominees. Bad justices like Kennedy (who authored the opinion) wasn't Reagan's first choice. And Stevens was appointed by a RINO. Only O'Connor and Souter are really horrible appointees, and I don't think that either Ronald Reagan or GH Bush intended them to be this way at all.

[McGavin999]

There's not much holding social conservatives in the GOP. If they go soft on guns, gays, and abortion, why the hell should I stay?

Then you might as well go and register as a democrat. After all, you'll be doing them as much good as you would if you directly voted for them. Besides, if you don't have the stomach for a fight, we'd be better off without you. We need people who are actually willing to do something (that isn't destructive).

You can't change the minds of politicians until you change the minds of the people. Ranting here on FR doesn't do anything, get out there and change minds in your neighborhood, the church, the schools. Otherwise, just become a democrat and be honest about your agenda.

[tpaine]

Can the Constitutional Party agree that:

The constitutional principle that life, liberty and property cannot be denied by fed/state/local 'laws' that violate due process, -- must be upheld.

Obviously, the court felt that the case in question defined that principle in private sexual matters.

Let us hope that the same principle can now be used to strike down the 'wars' on guns, drugs, and 'sin' that our prohibitionist brethren insist on fighting.

[Ahban]

ha! You must have skimmed, it took you about 1 minute to post that. Can't you see that saying the Feds have no right to intervene in state affairs means the Supremes can't toss state law nation-wide on a whim?

Furthermore, it is obvious that when they say our rights are from God, and that faith and submission to Christ is the foundation of our politcal activity, that sodomy laws are perfectly valid. ......

it is so obvious that they do not even need to put in the exact words "Sodomy laws of the several states should be upheld". Good grief, there is nothing in the platform about robbing banks either, does that mean we think laws against bank robbery should be thrown out?

our platform is for upholding state sodomy laws. you would have to be petulantly and deliberately blind not to see that....

and here is how our platform defines family and family relations...

Family

The law of our Creator defines marriage as the union between one man and one woman. The marriage covenant is the foundation of the family. We affirm, therefore, that no government may authorize or define marriage or family relations contrary to what God has instituted. Parents have the fundamental right and responsibility to nurture, educate, and discipline their children. Assumption of any of these responsibilities by any governmental agency usurps the role of the parents.

*****

[Diddle E. Squat]

You must have missed this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/937684/posts

[Captain Beyond]

See the Slippery Slope.... My irony meter just pegged and broke on that one.

[Ahban]

Slap your ownself. That so called partial birth abortion ban won't save one baby. It might not even slow down the baby parts industry. It was so narrow that it merely specified how much of the baby had to be out of the womb before a PBA could be performed. they now have to kill it before any of the head is exposed, they can still pull the baby out to the neck, then reach in and suck the brains out.

The ban is a fraud.....and so is the GOP as a pro-life party.

[Eastbound]

"[Gun owners, low-tax advocates, etc.], wake up!"

Maybe it's time for the gun owners, low-tax advocates, etc., to join the Republican Party and re-define it. Get back on the mother ship and haul out the garbage. The numbers are there.

[epow]

You didn't see a problem with the law in that it was legal for a man and woman to do it but wrong for two men?

No problem at all. Nothing a man and woman could possibly do is morally equivalent to any sex act between two people of the same sex. God never placed any retrictions on sexual acts between man and wife, but he absolutely forbids any kind of homosexual act. If TX law forbade any sex act between man and wife, it was a bad law and should have been repealed. Personally, I believe heterosexual anal intercourse is depraved and demeaning, especially to the female, but it shouldn't be made illegal.

BTW, sodomy is a general term to describe homosexual acts of all kinds. The notion that it only means anal intercourse is simply wrong. The word is derived from Sodom, as in Sodom and Gommarah, and nowhere in the bible is the homosexual sin of the Sodomites specified as being any one particular act. Sodomy is just the practice of homosexual sex in any form.

[gcruse]

But I fear the day is fast approaching when social conservatives
and/or Christian conservatives will have no choice,

When you're ready, just take the Libertarian Party platform,
change every  'shall' to 'shall not' and every 'is' to
'is not' and your new party should be ready to go.