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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court and Homosexuality
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.205217.5415@eff.org>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <24061@galaxy.ucr.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:52:17 GMT
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- In article <24061@galaxy.ucr.edu> judson@watserv.ucr.edu writes:
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- >However, the petitioner did not ask the right question. He
- >wanted the Court to rule that homosexuality is a Constitutional right,
- >and the Court could not find any basis for this and ruled against him.
- >Instead, the petitioner should have asked that the legislation be stricken
- >on grounds that it violated the right to privacy. If this were the
- >argument, the petitioner would have had a better chance of winning.
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- What makes you think that the petitioner *didn't* ask the question
- you think he should have asked? What you're writing here seems to have
- no connection to the petitioner's brief in Bowers v. Hardwick.
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- --Mike
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