They were phony arguments. That should be abundantly clear to everyone by now. The government was not peeping into people’s bedrooms. Sodomy laws kept homosexuality in the closet, where it belongs. Once sodomy became a constitutional right it was all over but for crossing t’s and dotting i’s. The gaystapo had their legal trump card.
What many lesser legal minds hoped was that the SCOTUS would have taken the lesser position on Lawrence, just overturning the Texas law for technical reasons. Instead they offered up the “head” of states’ rights to legislate on these matters to the left on a silver platter.
Antonin Scalia was a prophet.
Now as this disaster progresses, the push for representation in every area of politics, life and culture will only increase — as will the oppression of those who disagree.
Some freedom.
This was part of the problem, but the other (and to me, bigger) part is that traditional marriage had been becoming more and more vacuous in practice for decades.
The “gays” came to court and argued that their vacuous relationship wasn’t any more vacuous than the other folks’ vacuous relationship.
Getting a marriage back that means something might mean turning it over to the private sphere.
Lawrence v. Texas only came about because a jilted old queen was jealous of the “attention” his partner was giving to the black boy toy they invited into their depravity. I am sure the responding officers would have preferred to avoid that “crime scene.”