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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!srm
- From: srm@world.std.com (Stevens R Miller)
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court and Homosexuality
- Message-ID: <By2t7H.3DF@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Nov15.020915.13341@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov19.161549.10095@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <13311@optilink.COM>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 17:14:05 GMT
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- cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
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- >I think [the Hardwick] decision was wrong. What two consenting adults
- >do in private is none of the government's business.
-
- But that has nothing to do with what the court was asked to decide.
- The question was not whether or not it is the business of the federal
- government to regulate the conduct of consenting adults. The question
- was whether or not it is the business of the federal government to
- regulate a state's legislative power over the conduct of consenting
- adults. Now, you may feel that prohibiting sodomy is wrong, but all
- the court decided was that such prohibition did not violate the
- Constitution.
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- Stevens R. Miller J.D.
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