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Opponents of the appeal held signs saying "Aids is God's revenge" outside the court.

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At least lesbians don't have to worry!

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My understanding would be that you do not specifically have a right to privacy while breaking the law, but you DO have that right until it's been demonstrated that you are, or until there is reasonable grounds to believe that you are. In many cases this proof that you're breaking the law could only come about as a result of violating your privacy... and so you, not the state, should benefit from this logical "bootstrap". In other words:

You have a right to privacy UNTIL it's been shown that you're breaking the law, and since this can't be shown without violating your privacy, you can basically do as you please... just don't give anyone "reasonable grounds" or the whole thing comes crashing down.

At any rate, how totally backwards is this? As far as I'm concerned, this should mandate the use of an asterisk in phrases like "The Land of the Free*, and the Home of the Brave".

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what would be the legal justification for not allowing selective punishment based on sexual orientation?

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That you create now two categories of people, on arbitrary (and likely "moral") grounds. If we can specify, for example, that homosexuals can't have certain types of sex, then what would prevent us from saying that single mothers can't rent apartments, or blacks can't drive with more than one passenger in their car? Someone's just as sure to find a "rational" reason for those too, and I really, really don't think we should be going down that road.

P.S. Just to be clear, I don't think we should be going down that road either. I'm just trying to think of what the legal arguments might be.

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Ain't conservatives wonderful?

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Thankyou for painting an entire group of people with one big brush.

It's essentially illegal to RECEIVE anal sex if you are a man, but not if you are a woman.

It is not illegal to be a homosexual. It is illegal for a man to engage in anal sex with a man.

This could really be gender discrimination, couldn't it? And how ironic that it could be classified as that great favorite of right-wingers everywhere, REVERSE discrimination. Women get all the breaks. They're even allowed to take it up the butt while it's illegal for men to do so! I'm surprised those Republican types aren't chomping at the bit to rectify this injustice against men.

Rbil, I almost spit out my water - through my nose - when I read your post.

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The invalidated Maryland law prohibits "Blair Jobs", but the 1999 court ruling puts them in the clear, no matter how Blair backed Bush at their Camp David rendez-vous.

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Now that's thread drift: from Sodomy in Texas to a binary star about 380 light years away.

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You're welcome.
I thought it as good for the gander as well as the goose.

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There you go, painting with a broad brush again.

Since other 'right wing' people have come here and stereotype all of you, you go and assume that I have done the same thing.

Where and when did I ever say that all of the 'left wing' people are a bunch of "hippie, granola chewing, baby killing, tree hugging, commie scum"? It's just as absurd as calling all of us 'right wingers' a bunch of "racist, homophobic, religious fanatics"