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- From: srm@world.std.com (Stevens R Miller)
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court and Homosexuality
- Message-ID: <By3H5x.MzJ@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <24061@galaxy.ucr.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 01:51:32 GMT
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- judson@watserv.ucr.edu (Mike Judson) writes:
-
- >In article <By2t7H.3DF@world.std.com> srm@world.std.com (Stevens R Miller)
- >writes:
- >> cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
- >>
- >> >I think [the Hardwick] decision was wrong. What two consenting adults
- >> >do in private is none of the government's business.
- >>
- >> But that has nothing to do with what the court was asked to decide.
-
- >Mr. Miller, I don't mean to insult your intelligence as a J.D...
-
- You haven't, Mike, because...
-
- >...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.
-
- ...restates my analysis exactly. Good for you for understanding the
- difference between the powers our government ought to have, and the
- powers it is granted by the Constitution.
- --
- Stevens R. Miller J.D.
-