[madprof98]

If we are indeed engaged in a culture war, Scalia's side is losing and he knows it. In his desperation, he and others wish to enlist the power of government as a weapon to repress a minority he despises.

The AJC--like most major newspapers--provides almost ceaseless propaganda for one side of the culture war. (Bookman's piece, for example, is accompanied by an op-ed deploring Christian teaching against homosexuality because it makes young gay men feel bad.) I wonder why they fight so hard if they're so sure they're winning?

[Clint N. Suhks]

That's like saying you can pass a law against being Jewish because that law applies to everyone, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu or atheist.

What a moron.

[Mark Bahner]

"The Constitution just sets minimums," Scalia told an audience at John Carroll University on March 18. "Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires."

Scalia IS wrong; he totally neglects the 9th amendment. He's just another pathetic judge who makes up The Law to suit his own pre-established opinions of right and wrong.

[mrsmith]

"the Founding Fathers also respected the power of words. They too were precise in their use of language. And in the Ninth Amendment, they state explicitly that "the enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." "

The lying liberal pretends the Ninth doesn't apply ONLY to the federal government.

Madison was very proud to have found a way of keeping the feds from claiming that they had the power to regulate any rights that were not exempted in the Bill of Rights.

The Ninth amendment is a proscription against the federal Court doing just what it did in Lawrence: abridging unenumerated rights!

How are these idiots so successful at reversing the meanings of our Constitution?

[rhema]

Fortunately, like Scalia, the Founding Fathers also respected the power of words. They too were precise in their use of language. And in the Ninth Amendment, they state explicitly that "the enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

Among those "rights retained by the people," the right to privacy -- the right to be left alone -- is surely fundamental to the American understanding of the proper relationship between citizen and government.

Here's where Bookman's whistling Dixie. One right is stated explicitly; the other "right" is purely invented, an "emanation" emerging from the labyrinthine depth of the SCOTUS legislator-wannabes' "privacy penumbra." If Bookman had any intellectual honesty, he'd make the distinction.

[L.N. Smithee]

In his conclusion, Scalia accused the court of "tak[ing] sides in the culture wars, departing from its role of assuring, as a neutral observer, that the democratic rules of engagement are observed."

That's telling language. If we are indeed engaged in a culture war, Scalia's side is losing and he knows it. In his desperation, he and others wish to enlist the power of government as a weapon to repress a minority he despises.

Holy cow...I thought journalists were supposed to be able to read!

Scalia criticizes the other justices for "tak[ing] sides in the culture wars..." and then Bookman says "Scalia's side is losing"? Hey, pinhead, he's NOT TAKING SIDES!

"Telling language"? This is the sort of phrase weak writers use when they need to bridge uncooperative facts and quotes so they will lend credence to a pre-conceived conclusion, like when liberals accuse conservatives of using "code words" instead of admitting they are bigots.

Only in this man's dreams does the accurate Scalia quote in the first paragraph translate into the conclusion he draws in the following paragraph!

[skinkinthegrass]

The AJC--like most major newspapers--provides almost ceaseless propaganda for one side of the culture war...I wonder why they fight so hard if they're so sure they're winning?

Yes...It seems ANYTHING of an aberrant nature, the AJC champions...they like the Lexington Herald-Leader in Lexington, Ky. they provide Sport News and Coupons only...the rest is Liberal C*ap.

[Enough is ENOUGH]

I'm just curious. Does anybody know how many bedrooms during say the past ten years in Texas were broken into by LE and the occupants arrested for sodomy?

I haven't heard reference to any other cases.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The right to privacy fraud! There is NO right to privacy. There ARE constitutional statements as to the requirements for governmental search and seizure.Note one thing, almost everytime some individual screams privacy he, she or it is seeking to cover some vice, fraud or violence. For years I have seen the "Right" in action. In every case the proponent of the "Right" was seeking to evade the exposure of one of his lies.Hell even the first proponent of the so called "Right" had a father convicted of judicial corruption.