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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court and Homosexuality
- Keywords: _Skinner v. Oklahoma_, 316 U.S. 535 (1942)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.164201.4854@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 16:42:01 GMT
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- In article <19394@smoke.brl.mil> matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov22.223446.4225@midway.uchicago.edu>
- >thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >
- >>Here's a hypothetical.
- >>
- >>Can Georgia constitutionally ban heterosexual sex? [Ted Frank]
- >
- >We have it from Justice William Douglas's opinion for the U. S.
- >Supreme Court in _Skinner v. Oklahoma_, 316 U.S. 535 (1942),
- >that legislation taking away the right to procreate affects
- >"one of the basic civil rights of man," because marriage and
- >procreation are fundamental to the very existence and survival
- >of the race.
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- Show me "marriage" and "procreation" in the Constitution.
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- Can a state require a fertility test before marriage?
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