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To: Cathryn Crawford
Commercial transactions seem to be regulatable (regulable?).
Personal interactions, see below.


The Georgia Supreme Court noted:

The individual's right to freely exercise his or her liberty is not dependent upon whether the majority believes such exercise to be moral, dishonorable, or wrong. Simply because something is beyond the pale of "majoritarian morality" does not place it beyond the scope of constitutional protection. To allow the moral indignation of a majority (or, even worse, a loud and/or radical minority) to justify criminalizing private consensual conduct would be a strike against freedoms paid for and preserved by our forefathers.
4 posted on 06/29/2003 1:59:33 PM PDT by gcruse (There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women[.] --Margaret Thatcher)
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To: gcruse
Some might misunderstand that quote, so to put it in context::

"The Georgia Supreme Court noted:
The individual's right to freely exercise his or her liberty is not dependent upon whether the majority believes such exercise to be moral, dishonorable, or wrong. Simply because something is beyond the pale of "majoritarian morality" does not place it beyond the scope of constitutional protection [under the Constitution of the State of Georgia]... "

9 posted on 06/29/2003 2:25:48 PM PDT by mrsmith
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