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To: wirestripper
No Pappy, that is statutory rape or child rape or child molestation with rape, depending on the state or the prosecutor.(say buh bye for many years)

The Supremes said the Right to Privacy supercedes state laws, including laws regarding age of consent.

213 posted on 06/29/2003 4:52:30 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: AppyPappy
including laws regarding age of consent.

I did not read that into this decision.

215 posted on 06/29/2003 5:00:19 AM PDT by Cold Heat (Negotiate!! .............(((Blam!.)))........... "Now who else wants to negotiate?")
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To: AppyPappy
They specifically did not ignore age of consent.
"Houston police entered petitioner Lawrence’s apartment and saw him and another adult man, petitioner Garner, engaging in a private, consensual sexual act"
219 posted on 06/29/2003 5:07:52 AM PDT by djf
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To: AppyPappy; yall
"The Supremes said the Right to Privacy supercedes state laws"
-sapap-



You argue against a right to privacy..
Our general rights to life, liberty, and property encompass ~all~ of our unenumerated and enumerated rights..

IE.. It is doubtful that any rational person would argue against our right to live a 'private' life, secure in our homes and persons.

- Thus, does it not reasonably follow:
- That we have an unenumerated, fundamental right to privacy, found under both the 9th & 14th amendments?


In the same way, we can find our right to keep arms in both the 2nd, and in the 14ths restriction that we can not be deprived of property without due process of law.

Prohibitory state laws against behaviors or property can not be termed to be 'due process'. - They are simply the arbitrary rules of a majority.



236 posted on 06/29/2003 7:11:09 AM PDT by tpaine (Really, I'm trying to be a 'decent human being', but me flesh is weak)
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