Originally posted by 2001frontier:
The states rights issue is a BS argument. As has been stated the same thing happened during the civil rights movement. The Southern states wanted the feds to let them handle it themselves. That obviously was not acceptable. The job of the Supreme Court is to strike down laws that they see as unconstitutional. They saw the sodomy law as unconstitutional, so they said it had to go. Just because you may have liked the law does not mean it was legal. One thing that I found laughable was Thomas' statement about him not finding a right to privacy in the Constitution. Huh? I like Thomas as a justice, but I think he fucked up on this one.
2001frontier,
Your a wrong here. Yes, the Supreme Court decides on what is Constitutional. But, the Constitution says nothing about gay rights. Therefore the SC should not be involved in deciding for the individual States. If, the individual States want to have sodomy laws, that is their decision. That is what their people want.
I agree with Moby now, it is a privacy issue, not a gay issue.
Stone
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