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Everyone's favorite Bigot Extremist who was just appointed to the Judiciary in a recess appointment that subverts the will of the Senate, had these remarks to say in Lawrence VS Texas: pg. 33-4 " It should be noted, again, that the Texas statute in question does not criminalize petitioners' sexual orientation, which may or may not be a matter of choice and thus may arguably be protected from state discrimination by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Rather, the Texas antisodomy statute criminalizes petitioners' sexual activity, which is indisputably a matter of choice. Petitioners' protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, a constitutional right that protects "the choice of one's partner" and "whether and how to connect sexually" must logically extend to activities like prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia (if the child should credibly claim to be "willing"). For all intents and purposes, petitioners seek to enshrine as the defining tenet of modern constitutional jurisprudence the sophomoric libertarian mantra from the musical "Hair": "be free, be whatever you are, do whatever you want to do, just as long as you don't hurt anybody." Bracketing for the moment the dubious proposition that any human behavior is purely selfaffecting, suffice it to say that so expansive and undisciplined an interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment would constitute a radical departure from the historical analysis that this Court has always employed in its fundamental rights jurisprudence. It would embrace the very principle rejected by this Court in Roe v. Wade, that "one has an unlimited right to do with one's body as one pleases." And it would ignore this Court's admonition in Glucksberg that the Fourteenth Amendment does not protect "any and all important, intimate, and personal decisions. " --- Shrub 04: Don't Switch Horsemen Mid-Apocalypse _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
