[Viva Le Dissention]

I think I didn't make myself clear. I simply don't care whether gays get married.

And frankly, I don't think the Supreme Court overstepped its bounds at all. In fact, I was rather pleased with the decision; I didn't much like the idea of the police entering into people's homes and arresting them for private, consenting conduct.

But even if you don't like the Court's decision, this is the risk you run of allowing the Supreme Court to review laws for constitutionality. You take your lumps when it comes to a few things. My personal "white whale" is the administrative state, but it is what it is.

Remember, the Court isn't final because it is infallible, it is infallible because it's final.

[aristeides]

See my #119. The Supreme Court is not final when it's overruled by constitutional amendment.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

I think I didn't make myself clear. I simply don't care whether gays get married.

No, you did, hence the first they came for the Jews comment.

And frankly, I don't think the Supreme Court overstepped its bounds at all. In fact, I was rather pleased with the decision; I didn't much like the idea of the police entering into people's homes and arresting them for private, consenting conduct.

Again with the bedroom cops canard. Look I've debated paranoid libertarians about this before, so my patience is a bit low...sorry. There aren't going to be a new division to bust down any doors if States are allowed to rule on this, there wasn't even in the case of this Texas one that was allowed that right.

The issue, which the feel good Judicial Activism you are agreeing with irresponsibly is blind to, is that we can and do outlaw things behind closed doors-for good reason.

Sex being consenting adult brothers-sisters.

Polygamy.

Beastiality.

You need to think this new legislating-from-the-bench through more, certainly more than Kennedy and the other 5 did and stop getting so caught up in how good it makes you feel. We have community standards, we have had community standards, and we always should. Abolitioning the right of the States to have community standards because some groups have their feelings hurt sets the precident of abolishing a whole lot of other standards. That's what you have to think about, Santorum, to his credit, predicting the long term effects of vague rulings as this.