To: ConsistentLibertarian
Griswold v. Connecticut was wrongly decided in my view. This is the decision that brought the commercial 'right of privacy' (invented in a 1893 Harvard Law Review article) which was intended to deal with the right to one's own name and image, into Consititutional and criminal law. Howevermuch the result, invalidating the CT law, was not bad, the way it was done was the direct precursor, and the precedent relied upon, in Roe v. Wade.
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08/21/2003 9:19:34 AM PDT by
CatoRenasci
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To: CatoRenasci
"Griswold v. Connecticut was wrongly decided in my view."
I've taken that same position on other threads.
But it's a huge leap to go from there to thinking the ACLU is on "a jihad to ... subvert the Constitution" or that they are an "America-hating terror group".
Yet that's what one reads on FR.
We can run an experiment if you like. I'll go to another thread and strike up a conversation about the ACLU and you can check the hostility/knowledge ratio on FR ;-)
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