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- From: dan@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com (Dan Breslau)
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court and Homosexuality
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.202711.18043@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com>
- Keywords: _Skinner v. Oklahoma_, 316 U.S. 535 (1942)
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- References: <24067@galaxy.ucr.edu> <1992Nov22.223446.4225@midway.uchicago.edu> <19394@smoke.brl.mil> <1992Nov23.164201.4854@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:27:11 GMT
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- thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
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- >>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.
-
- >Show me "marriage" and "procreation" in the Constitution.
-
- It's in that funny little clause that starts out,
- "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights..."
-
- ... but the print is so small you can't see the ending:
-
- "... Of course, this includes the obvious ones, like
- privacy, marriage, and procreation. Do we _really_ have
- to spell it all out?"
-
- Dan Breslau
- dan@codex.com
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