Alabama Chief Justice Calls Homosexuality 'Evil' in High Court Decision

Nando Times / AP ^ | 2/18/2002 | Phillip Rawls

[outlawcam]

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[Burkeman1]

I am not commeting on the entirety of Judge moore's decision. Perhaps he did base most of it sound legal thinking. I only said that it was wrong for him to include personal remarks about the rightness or wrongness of homosexual acts.

The Declaration is a very pretty document. However- it is not law. We have a constitution that sets up the frame work of our government. Attempts to read "intent" into the declaration and then somehow use these opinions in deciding matters of law are invalid. The Declaration did what it did- declared independence from Great Britian- that is it.

[outlawcam]

I only said that it was wrong for him to include personal remarks about the rightness or wrongness of homosexual acts.

Why is it wrong? Did he break the law? If he didn't, then your entire argument about how he ought only respect the law falls apart. If he broke no law, no foul was committed, if I follow your logic correctly.

The Declaration, I must remind you, is a little more than a pretty piece of paper. Our founders thought enough of it to refer to it quite a bit, as has the Supreme Court, in over 400 cases! You say it isn't law, but I argue that it is, because it is only by its reasoning that we claim to have a right to make any law, independent from Britain, on our own.

[Burkeman1]

Great- what a leftist could do with the wording in the declaration is just to horrible to contemplate. Sorry- I think the constitution is fine. If the founders had it in mind to include the Declaration as codified then they would have done so.

[outlawcam]

So you have no intention of actually answering the question, do you? That's fine. I wish you all the best, and hope that you'll consider debating at a later date. For further research and discussion on Declaration issues, I recommend going to the Declaration Foundation, and participating in the discussion forum there. Not everyone there is in complete agreement, but our goal is to engage in reasoned debate. Stop by when you get a chance.