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- From: srm@world.std.com (Stevens R Miller)
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court and Homosexuality
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:30:33 GMT
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- cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
-
- >Why do I suspect that the Supreme Court just wanted to teach this
- >guy a lesson about "wasting" their time?
-
- That's a good question, Clayton. Why do you suspect this? There is
- nothing in the opinion that addresses it, though many a case has turned
- on the conservation of judicial resources. Keep in mind that the SC
- only hears cases it decides to; the grant of certiorari is wholly
- discretionary.
-
- A better guess as to why the case addressed homosexual sodomy specifically
- might be that Eisenstadt v. Baird had already extended the privacy right
- found in Griswold to non-married couples, on equal protection grounds.
- Homosexuals are not, alas, a very well protected class when it comes
- to EP analyses.
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- Stevens R. Miller J.D.
-