SCOTUS strikes down Texas sodomy ban

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[Thane_Banquo]

SCOTUS sided with the perverts.

[Grando Calrissian]

This thread has once again proved the fact that people whose legal knowledge comes from "Matlock" and "The Practice" should leave law to the lawyers. Sure, everyone should read the constitution and know some basic facts about how government works. However, they should also realize their limitations.

That is why I know I'm superior. I got all my legal knowledge from "L.A. Law"

[jethropalerobber]

So giving unelected federal judges the power to write state law is decreasing the size of government?

what is the text of this new state law scotus has written? how much money has the state of texas allocated to enforce it?

Billions more in tax dollars is siphoned out of our pockets to pay medical bills, and taxation is itself a restriction on liberty.

great point! hey, why don't we regulate what foods people can and can't eat as well - those fat people are bleeding us dry comrade! socialism is cool - it let's me pass judgement on all kinds of 'anti-social' people.

[Dead Corpse]

Hey, if you want to pick up the tab of this blue-nosed-religious-extremist's share of the costs of the AIDS epidemic, be my guest.

Instead of compounding one wrong with another, how about we get rid of welfare and socialized medicine? Let the free-market handle it.

I can't believe you are arguing for Nanny Statism because to do otherwise it might endanger your socialist Medicare.

[wimpycat]

I do. But I want the answer from the one I've asked it of first.

Oh. I hope the other guy answers the questions to your satisfaction, because then it will be your turn, and I'll be interested to see what the "official" answers are from you, since you claim to have "the" answers. But I have a feeling that if he tries to answer the questions, you'll only ask him more questions, and then even more, asking him to "clarify", etc....and somehow I'll never get the honor of witnessing you answering your own "fairly easy" questions.

[HumanaeVitae]

Morality and legality are often (but not always) two very different things.

There pretty much always the same thing. The law is about what you 'ought' do and what you 'ought not' do. Where the law is silent on what you 'ought not' do there is tacit approval. 'Oughts' and 'ought nots' are value-decisions. Thus they are moral decisions. The idea that the law and morality can be divorced is only a doctrine that can be held by libertarians who want society to be forced to ignore the costs of perversion.

[LanPB01]

"I got all my legal knowledge from "L.A. Law"

I intend to brush up on my legal knowledge by catching the premier of "Gary the Rat" tonight on Spi. . . er, the new TNN!

[rintense]

I heard you the five other times you posted.

[VRWC_minion]

The pill is not a failsafe birth control measure.

We have abortion or the morning after pill as a back up. Plus, we can refrain from intercoure

2. The emotional damage inflicted on a child makes the child of the parent incapable of consent, even if they are otherwise competent.

She is either capable of deciding or she is not. If the state says she is capable and she does it in her private home who is the state to intrude ?

3. The family is a traditional American institution where the boundaries of authority (i.e. father/daughter, mother/son) must be respected in order to stregthen and preserve the family unit. Sex with relatives destroys that.

The family is an outdated religious constraint. Don't go imposing your religious views on me and my daughter

[wimpycat]

You stay away from me. I don't have a tooth plaque problem and I aim to keep it that way.

[B Knotts]

It appears from Thomas' remark that he doesn't agree with the morality viewpoint.

Agreed, in so far as that viewpoint is legislated.

I don't think it says one way or the other how he feels about it morally.

I think the behavior at issue is clearly immoral, but I agree with Justice Thomas that is should probably not be illegal. They way the Court went about legalizing it, however, is despicable.

[Pahuanui]

right ... flailing your fists --- wrong ... hitting someone !

In this case --- state's (( society )) rights !

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[VRWC_minion]

Is she hot? Just kidding.

Unfortunately, yes.

[f.Christian]

my cart has gps ... satellite control --- ' rails ' !

[kegler4]

"The vast, vast amounts of people who engage in oral and anal sex don't give a damn what the law says about it."

Dang, and I thought that every homosexual in Texas (do they allow homosexuals in Texas?) was abstaining until this decision. Even now they must be flooding the parks and sidewalks to...oops, that's right, there's still a law against that in PUBLIC.

Now if only my state will drop its law forbidding oral sex between consenting heterosexuals, then maybe I could have more fun.

[OWK]

But I have a feeling that if he tries to answer the questions, you'll only ask him more questions, and then even more, asking him to "clarify", etc....and somehow I'll never get the honor of witnessing you answering your own "fairly easy" questions.

All I want is sincere and legitimate answers to the questions.

What are rights?

What do they include?

What are their limitations?

By what yardstick do we differentiate "right" from "non-right"?

I don't understand why no one is willing to take a cut at it.

[spunkets]

"religious-extremist's share of the costs of the AIDS epidemic"

There was a time when charity was properly handled as such. Then it was handed over to those that do not recognize the name of the one who asked it be done. The glory now belongs to the state and the shame is on those that abandoned the former for the later.

[Dead Corpse]

You stay away from me. I don't have a tooth plaque problem and I aim to keep it that way.

I promise I won't plaque your teeth. I might sour the milk in your fridge though.... ;-)

[B Knotts]

There pretty much always the same thing.

I disagree. Lying is definitely immoral, but few would advocate a law outlawing it.

[HumanaeVitae]

Instead of compounding one wrong with another, how about we get rid of welfare and socialized medicine? Let the free-market handle it.

I can't believe you are arguing for Nanny Statism because to do otherwise it might endanger your socialist Medicare.

If a bisexual man with AIDS impregnates a woman and the baby she delivers has the AIDS virus, I suppose you would advocate euthanizing that child, wouldn't you. I'm all for cutting the welfare state in half or better. Unfortunately, if people like you keep apologizing for perversion, it will be difficult to cut it since the social costs of these depravities must be picked up somehow.

As long as libertarian social ideas are prevalent, the government will keep growing.

[OWK]

my cart has gps ... satellite control --- ' rails ' !

That was YOU on the cover of "Incoherent-Street-Bum-Lunatic" magazine????

Wow... a celebrity