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- From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court and Homosexuality
- Message-ID: <6dfH03qwbdkJ00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 18:55:56 GMT
- References: <1992Nov22.230615.13593@eff.org> <24071@galaxy.ucr.edu>
- Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- judson@watserv.ucr.edu (Mike Judson) writes:
-
- }My source is taken from the opinion of the Court. Here is how the opinion
- }started:
-
- }"The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a
- }fundamental right upon homosexuality to engage in sodomy and hence
- }invalidates the laws of the many States that still make such conduct
- }illegal and have done so for a very long time."
-
- }Further on, he continues:
-
- }"Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in
- }homosexual sodomy."
-
- }Is that evidence enough to show that Hardwick was claiming a fundamental
- }right to homosexuality?
-
- Well, others have already pointed out that this opinion is not an accurate
- summary of the brief, but I don't even see that this opinion supports your
- contention. You say that Hardwick "was claiming a fundamental right to
- homosexuality", and the opinion clearly refers to homosexual *acts*. Even
- I can see a big difference between a right to be a homosexual and a right
- to engage in homosexual acts. It's kind of like the difference between the
- right to think about murdering someone and the right to murder someone.
-
- --James Preston
-