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- From: judson@watserv.ucr.edu (Mike Judson)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court and Homosexuality
- Message-ID: <24066@galaxy.ucr.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 22:13:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.205217.5415@eff.org> mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- writes:
- > In article <24061@galaxy.ucr.edu> judson@watserv.ucr.edu writes:
- >
- > >However, the petitioner did not ask the right question. He
- > >wanted the Court to rule that homosexuality is a Constitutional right,
- > >and the Court could not find any basis for this and ruled against him.
- > >Instead, the petitioner should have asked that the legislation be stricken
- > >on grounds that it violated the right to privacy. If this were the
- > >argument, the petitioner would have had a better chance of winning.
- >
- > What makes you think that the petitioner *didn't* ask the question
- > you think he should have asked? What you're writing here seems to have
- > no connection to the petitioner's brief in Bowers v. Hardwick.
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- O.K., it was my mistake in that I incorectly labeled Hardwick as the
- petitioner; he was the appellee. However, my argument is still valid.
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