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The is the first of a three-part series) In his distinguished book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn, the late MIT philosopher of science, noted that scientists were not always disinterested, "objective" scholars. Too often, bogus research findings become "fashionable" as scientists and society embrace a revolutionary new paradigm based on deceptive "scientific findings." Consider the "science" of "phrenology," so popular a century ago, which specifically linked intelligence and character traits to skull shape and cranial size. Lawrence v. Texas is a flagrant, indeed chilling, example of just such a bogus "scientific" revolution, one in which the U.S....

Any honest person knows it was never the intent of the writers of the U.S. Constitution to condone, protect or in any way make normal or acceptable the sin of homosexuality. No other institution has single-handedly done more to hurt and destroy this country than the Judiciary - unless it would be God's people (His Church) who should know better than to apathetically tolerate the evil so prevalent in our courts and nation today. There is only one way to correct the problem in the court system of our country. Every time one of these renegade black-robed judges violates the...

The Supreme Court, in two recent cases (Lawrence v. Texas and Atkins v. Virginia) is continuing a trend of citations of foreign and international law, particularly European law, as supporting evidence for the validity of its decisions. This use of international sources in cases involving purely domestic concerns is alien to the American legal system, historically, and, if unchecked, will produce a further erosion of American sovereignty, in addition to the mischief already done by these cases. Lawrence v. Texas, 02-102 (2003), is the recent case overturning a Texas statute barring same-sex sodomy. Justice Kennedy, writing for the majority, cites...

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. — James Madison, author of the U.S. Constitution The Constitution, according to the Supreme Court, past and present, provides for a 'right to privacy.' Justice William Douglas, in his majority opinion for Griswold vs Connecticut (1965), gave us the now-notorious expression used as the basis for a Constitutional right to privacy: "The foregoing cases suggest that specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those...

There could be reason to celebrate the deliberate dictates of the Supreme Court majority in The Michigan (affirmative action) and Texas (sodomy statutes). That is if one subscribes to the axiom that these are the straws that will break the camel's back; that these contemptible rulings will finally galvanize a rebellion against the indignities that they are.But there is no reason to celebrate because there is no camel; there is only a growing pile of straw. Following these decisions, the thinly provocative arguments against the court's decrees advanced by numerous commentators are as straw to straw, failing to define the...