[betty boop]

sexual rights....

Sexual rights??????? Jeepers, tpaine -- think about what you're saying here -- "rights" is a freaking political term. Do you actually approve of the "politicization of sex???" If the politician gets a toe-hold there, how can he be stopped from intruding anywhere else? Can you spell: "B-I-G_B-R-O-T-H-E-R"?

[tpaine]

betty boop;
" -- would you kindly explain to me from what text in the Constitution have the federal courts received any grant whatever to rule on issues involving sexuality?"
-BB-



Our general rights to life & liberty pretty well encompress sexual rights Betty, - there's no need to enumerate them. Thus the courts powers granted under Art III apply to 'sexuality' issues, when such issues are violated.
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.
Where do you stand on such prohibitory type laws, Betty?
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Sexual rights??????? Jeepers, tpaine -- think about what you're saying here -- "rights" is a freaking political term. Do you actually approve of the "politicization of sex???" If the politician gets a toe-hold there, how can he be stopped from intruding anywhere else? Can you spell: "B-I-G_B-R-O-T-H-E-R"?
-BB-


Jeepers betty, here I kindly explained to you about what text in the Constitution applies to the federal courts that granted them power to rule on issues involving sexuality;

-- and the best you can do in reply is to play word games that such "rights" are "a freaking political term."?

You're slipping kid.

Maybe you've been hanging with FR's 'spinners' a bit too much.

[Skywalk]

betty

Do you have a right to eat, provided you are eating your own food or food freely given to you? Do you have a right to breathe? Take a dump? Urinate? Wash your hands?

It may sound silly to say "you have a right to wash your hands" but, in essence, you do. That is why the 9th Amendment is there, it is no mere amendment to be forgotten but enshrines the very essence of the constitution.

There is a higher order above that of the Constitution and almost all of the Founders recognized that, even if they could not all agree on specific issues or even great moral ones such as slavery.

And telling government they can't regulate sexual activity that's consensual is HARDLY the beginning of Big Brother. BIg Brother would be upholding such laws and increasing their power and enforcement.