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To: Sabertooth
"Sodomy is a behavior."

Sodomy as a behavior was not outlawed for 97% of the population of Texas, it was however outlawed for a minority of the citizens of the State.

332 posted on 06/28/2003 12:22:43 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Cuba serĂ¡ libre...soon.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Sodomy as a behavior was not outlawed for 97% of the population of Texas, it was however outlawed for a minority of the citizens of the State.

You consistently misunderstand, but I'll try again. Every adult in Texas, under the state law, could practice consensual sodomy with an adult of the opposite sex. No adult could practice sodomy with another of the same sex. The law was equally applied, not "outlawed for a minority."

Trying to elevate homosexuality to minority status is an understood ploy, but it does not hold water. People are homosexuals because the choose to engage in homosexual acts, People are pedophiles when they choose to molest children. People are adulterers because they choose to engage in adultery.

To refer to people as "homosexuals," "pedophiles," or "adulterers" is to describe their behavior, not their intrinsic identity, or their "essential humanity," to borrow Anthony Kennedy's whimsical phrase. These people are not minorities, they are practitioners of behaviors.


348 posted on 06/28/2003 12:35:19 PM PDT by Sabertooth
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