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To: Sabertooth; Torie
To judge by Limon, that unenumerated right appears to include (consensual?) sex with 14-year-olds, at least if it's homosexual sex. Otherwise the Supreme Court would have routinely upheld the sentencing disparity under conventional rational-basis review.
99 posted on 06/28/2003 8:35:31 AM PDT by aristeides
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To: aristeides
A 17 year sentence vs. a 15 months sentence has no rational basis.
103 posted on 06/28/2003 8:37:19 AM PDT by cherrycapital
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To: aristeides
To judge by Limon, that unenumerated right appears to include (consensual?) sex with 14-year-olds, at least if it's homosexual sex. Otherwise the Supreme Court would have routinely upheld the sentencing disparity under conventional rational-basis review.

Homosexual incest is the probable door through which a general right to incest is discovered. What is the compelling state interest in prohibiting sodomy between two adult brothers, or sisters?

As of Thursday, there is none. From there, we're an equal protection argument away from a general right to consensual adult incest.

The genetic objection to a legalization of incest is already on shaky ground, since most incest doesn't result in birth defects. Those who want to discover a right to sodomy, but hold the ground on incest because of the possibililty of birth defects, will have to cartwheel like a gymnast to explain why there isn't a state interest in regulating all extramarital heterosexual sex, since STDs can also induce birth defects.


164 posted on 06/28/2003 9:13:30 AM PDT by Sabertooth
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