SCOTUS strikes down Texas sodomy ban

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[Thane_Banquo]

SCOTUS sided with the perverts.

[OWK]

What a stupid decision.

Heaven knows that adults can't be trusted in their own bedrooms.

We need MORE government control of our lives, not LESS. (especially in the bedroom, where consenting adults might do something nasty).

We need religious police, like they have in Saudi Arabia.

That'll keep people from having sex we disapprove of.

[JudgemAll]

GW Bush caused this to happen.

Yes but he caused the shoot down of MullaOmar, Gore and Saddam so far.

[Lazamataz]

This is just one more bullet in the heart of federalism and state-reserved powers under the 10th Amendment.

That, plus Libertarians cause soggy cereal.

[george wythe]

. When we ban sodomy, we are saying that homosexuality activity is immoral and ought not be encouraged, much like we ban prostitution (sex for money), but not sex for free.

Most of the people busted for prostitution are convicted for negotiating in public with an undercover police officer, or having sex in public places such a parking lot known to attrack prostitutes.

Your analogy is false. Try again.

[Past Democrat]

NittanyLion,
1 : to give assent or approval :
2 to be in concord in opinion or sentiment
If the animals like doing it then it is consent and someday this will be before the court do.

[MaxPlus305]

Isn't it possible, though, to have the slippery slope go in the other direction? For example, if the SC held up this essentially "moral" ruling, what would stop states from being able to arrest heterosexuals who have anal sex, or people from looking at Playboy, or masturbating--all on the basis of morality? Would everyone be OK with the government regulating all those behaviors?

[Lazamataz]

And they are cheering the gagging and suffocation of America on the excrement of libertinism--which is the libertarians' true agenda.

Right. Well, actually, the agenda of Libertarians is to make pastries out of the blood of infants.

[unspun]

Do you really think the constitution gives us our rights? Our rights come from our creator. The Constitution limits government rights not individual rights. One of Madison's concerns in drafting the Bill of Rights was that those enumerated rights would become the ONLY protected rights. It appears that today even conservatives wish for a powerful federal government that restrains us within the narrow framework of the Bill of Rights.

Let me get this straight. Are you saying that God has given me the right to penetrate another man's rectum with my penis? I'll have to admit that's one place where one is apt to find a penumbra, come to think about it.

[rintense]

Well, I think gay men are naive to think only they like having sex that way. But this ruling (or at least the wording of the AP article) makes it seem like only gay men practice sodomy. For those het couples who enjoy it, they'll like this ruling as well.

BTW, they have legit clubs where you can have sex? Truly, I did not know that. I live in a community where that would never, ever happen.

[LanPB01]

Four out of five dentists agree that libertarians lead to tooth decay.

[glory]

We know that time is coming, it's a matter of time. Yet another reason we've chosen to keep our children home while the pedophiles wait in the wings with "teaching certificates" to have "valid" relations with children and teens once we get to that point. Everybody had better hope weapons rights don't erode much further. No government has lasted for an extended period of time and I say within 200 years or less, people will be defending themselves again in this country against the government or their deviant neighbors. I don't know if it will even happen in my children's lifetimes, but I intend to arm them with knowledge and power so that they may send the info down through the generations. I really am not a self-reliant kook hiding in the backwoods, but I think the writing is on the walls and a little prudent preperation without being completely paranoid is in order. I intend for my line to carry on when this mess finally explodes and then settles--I don't think that will be possible for a good portion of Americans who have carried the mantra for far too long of "not rocking the boat". Those types will still be passive and giving in even when the gun is to their head.

[Lazamataz]

The few that are, are very happy today.

Libertarians cause cancer.

[Belial]

That and perverted people can also have kids and "raise" them.

Perverted people come in all stripes and sexual orientations, my friend. There are religious wingnuts every year making the news who beat their children because they found some verse in the Bible they liked. How about the wackos who deprive their kids of medical attention, because the Bible demands it? Take Rudolph...hated gays like no one's business and became a homegrown terrorist in the process.

The world is a bit more complicated than straight/gay, perverted/normal. I know a gay couple raising a child who are far better parents than most I've met. Discounting them and their family out of hand is an ugly and stupid thing to do, to put it kindly.

[JudgemAll]

We need religious police, like they have in Saudi Arabia.

hey biggot, it's not a question of religion nor of government, it is a question in fact of adult governance, AIDS and many other sick individualist Libertarian Politicaly correct tyranical rights that kill, "rights" the Libertarians promote.

This law in effect, sir, allows women who are sodomized by their husbands to not appeal for a divorce. This is a defacto legalization of abuse.

[Lazamataz]

"Adult" is whatever a legislature says it is.

I've never seen a tornado that was not caused by Libertarians.

[sinkspur]

Every time I was an adulterer, it was by CONSENT!

Did your paramour's wife consent?

She was the VICTIM of YOUR adultery.

[tdadams]

Most gays believe they have the *right* to have sex anywhere, not just in the privacy of their own home.

I know several gay people and not a single one of them would make such a risible assertion. You're speaking a bunch of bullsh!t.

[LizardQueen]

Libertarians also cause jock itch and athlete's foot.

LQ

[tdadams]

Where in the freaking constitution does it say that we can't have laws which "demean" people?

So, you apparently believe having laws that demean people is a good thing. How odd.

[Pahuanui]

It's only a matter of time now before some NAMBLA pervert goes to the court and says that his 6 year old neighbor loves being molested. The Supreme Court has already set the stage with this decision. It is not a decision about privacy, it is a decision about morality. They've said that the government cannot legislate morality. So if it can't legislate against sodomites, how can it then legislate against other perverts? How can it then say what is the age of consent? If an 11 year old says he wants Pee Wee to have his way with him, how dare the government impose its view of morality on them! They’re not hurting anyone! Hurrah for Libertarianism!

Wow.

Where'd you go to law school? The Northern Illinois Academy of Welding?