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- From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court and Homosexuality
- Message-ID: <13239@optilink.UUCP>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:48:59 GMT
- References: <DuPsTB1w163w@peewee> <1992Nov15.020915.13341@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov18.024658.5826@panix.com>
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- In article <1992Nov18.024658.5826@panix.com>, lkk@panix.com (Larry Kolodney) writes:
- > In <1992Nov16.183233.806@athena.cs.uga.edu> heath@athena.cs.uga.edu (Terrance Heath) writes:
- # # Actually, the GA sodomy law does not single out same sex
- # #couples in the letter of the law.
- #
- # This is true, and raises a very interesting point. Why did the
- # Supreme Court opinion in *Bowers v. Hardwick* open with the line: The
- # question before us is whether the states may prohibit *homosexual*
- # sodomy. (my paraphrase)? Even though the statute was
- # sex-orientation-neutral, Byron White chose to specifically single out
- # homosexual sodomy as subject to state regulation.
- #
- # larry kolodney:(lkk@panix.com)
-
- Because the case before them involved homosexual "sodomy" (within
- the peculiar definition of the Georgia statutue)? Because they
- were pissed that a case where no one was in danger of going to
- prison was fought through the courts? The charges were dropped
- against the man who was arrested. The effort (well-
- intentioned) to get the Georgia law overturned through the courts,
- however, burned off a lot of court time at the lower levels.
- Why do I suspect that the Supreme Court just wanted to teach this
- guy a lesson about "wasting" their time?
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- Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
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