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To: general_re
Let's see, you said that the litmus test of legislation is whether it has an impact on a third party.

Under your logic, an unmarried heterosexual couple could be arrested for for fornication because their behavior promotes the spread of STDs. It has the potential for impact on third parties

Under your logic, adultery can be prosecuted, because it undermines marriage generally, exposes the innocent spouses affected to STDs and undermines the welfare of any children to the marriage.

Under your logic, sodomy could be prosecuted because it promotes the spread of HIV. Something that could affect third parties.

48 posted on 03/26/2003 10:23:20 AM PST by Don'tMessWithTexas
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To: Don'tMessWithTexas
Let's see, you said that the litmus test of legislation is whether it has an impact on a third party.

No, I said it's a privacy issue because it doesn't involve a third party, outside your bedroom. If it doesn't involve me or anyone else outside your bedroom, what goes on inside your bedroom between consenting adults is your personal, private business.

Once we clear up your misunderstanding of what I actually said, the rest of your post pretty much falls apart on its own.

109 posted on 03/26/2003 1:14:17 PM PST by general_re (The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.)
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