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- From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court and Homosexuality
- Message-ID: <58Vx028J2cHT01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 01:12:51 GMT
- References: <24071@galaxy.ucr.edu>
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- Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
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- In article <24071@galaxy.ucr.edu>, 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."
-
- This is the words of the majority, not of Hardwick. If someone used this
- logic on usenet, he'd be flamed for attacking a straw man.
-
- Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
- The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
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