From: "Rev. Nickie" <nickie@subgenius.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 26, 2003
ESPECAILLY READ THE LAST PART! LET'S MAKE X-DAY 666
A BUTTFUCKIN' GOOD
TIME!!! -Rev. Nickie
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 12:50 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court struck down a ban
on gay sex
Thursday, ruling that the law was an unconstitutional
violation of
privacy.
The 6-3 ruling reverses course from a ruling 17 years
ago that states
could punish homosexuals for what such laws historically
called deviant
sex.
Laws forbidding homosexual sex, once universal, now
are rare. Those on
the books are rarely enforced but underpin other kinds
of discrimination,
lawyers for two Texas men had argued to the court.
The men ``are entitled to respect for their private
lives,'' Justice
Anthony M. Kennedy wrote.
``The state cannot demean their existence or control
their destiny by
making their private sexual conduct a crime,'' he said.
Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader
Ginsburg and Stephen
Breyer agreed with Kennedy in full. Justice Sandra Day
O'Connor agreed
with the outcome of the case but not all of Kennedy's
rationale.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin
Scalia and
Clarence Thomas dissented.
The court ``has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual
agenda,''
Scalia wrote for the three. He took the unusual step
of reading his
dissent from the bench.
``The court has taken sides in the culture war,'' Scalia
said, adding
that he has ``nothing against homosexuals.''
Although the majority opinion said the case did not
``involve whether the
government must give formal recognition to any relationship
that
homosexual persons seek to enter,'' Scalia said the
ruling invites laws
allowing gay marriage.
``This reasoning leaves on shaky, pretty shaky grounds,
state laws
limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples,'' Scalia
wrote.
Thomas wrote separately to say that while he considers
the Texas law at
issue ``uncommonly silly,'' he cannot agree to strike
it down because he
finds no general right to privacy in the Constitution.
Thomas calls himself a strict adherent to the actual
words of the
Constitution as opposed to modern-day interpretations.
If he were a Texas
legislator and not a judge, Thomas said, he would vote
to repeal the law.
``Punishing someone for expressing his sexual preference
through
noncommercial consensual conduct with another adult
does not appear to be
a worthy way to expend valuable law enforcement resources,''
Thomas
wrote.
The two men at the heart of the case, John Geddes Lawrence
and Tyron
Garner were each fined $200 and spent a night in jail
for the misdemeanor
sex charge in 1998.
The case began when a neighbor with a grudge faked a
distress call to
police, telling them that a man was ``going crazy''
in Lawrence's
apartment. Police went to the apartment, pushed open
the door and found
the two men having anal sex.
``This ruling lets us get on with our lives and it opens
the door for gay
people all over the country,'' Lawrence said Thursday.
Ruth Harlow, one of Lawrence's lawyers, called the ruling historic.
``The court had the courage to reverse one of its gravest
mistakes and to
replace that with a resounding statement,'' of gay civil
rights, Harlow
said.
``This is a giant leap forward to a day where we are
no longer branded as
criminals.''
As recently as 1960, every state had an anti-sodomy
law. In 37 states,
the statutes have been repealed by lawmakers or blocked
by state courts.
Of the 13 states with sodomy laws, four -- Texas, Kansas,
Oklahoma and
Missouri -- prohibit oral and anal sex between same-sex
couples. The
other nine ban consensual sodomy for everyone: Alabama,
Florida, Idaho,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Utah and
Virginia.
Thursday's ruling apparently invalidates those laws as well.
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From: "bouncin ti--ies" <connierulz@yahoo.com>
I am so *freaking thrilled* that this ruling went
down during the tenure of Bush II and Ashcroft.
I wonder however, if this ruling will put a few of the
"minor-players" in Westboro Blaptist Church
or some of Eric Rudolf's pals in Western N.C.
squarely over the cliff and accelerating vertically
to
their own version of a McVeigh "II" type stunt....?
Note: Fred Phelps of WBC was recently
interviewed by Hustler magazine. The text
of the interview will appear in the September
2003 issue.
You can be sure the loons on right wing domestic
shortwave radio will be ranting up an amusing
storm fer sure
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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>
"bouncin ti--ies" <connierulz@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I wonder however, if this ruling will put a few
of the
>"minor-players" in Westboro Blaptist Church=20
>or some of Eric Rudolf's pals in Western N.C.=20
>squarely over the cliff and accelerating vertically
to=20
>their own version of a McVeigh "II" type
stunt....?
>
>Note: Fred Phelps of WBC was recently=20
>interviewed by Hustler magazine. The text=20
>of the interview will appear in the September=20
>2003 issue.=20
>
>=20
>
>You can be sure the loons on right wing domestic=20
>shortwave radio will be ranting up an amusing=20
>storm fer sure
WHAT equals twenty?
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
Masturbation means not having to spring for dinner and
a movie.
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From: "bouncin ti--ies" <connierulz@yahoo.com>
"Joe Cosby" <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>
wrote in message
> WHAT equals twenty?
In base 10 or Base 8 or Hexidecimal?
Nothing...except another quirky bug in Outlook
I had turned on for someplace else to drive
them nuts. (I was firing tracer rounds in alt.slack
by accident - so sorry - gottie tickie washie shirtie?)
> Masturbation means not having to spring for dinner and a movie.
Moreso now that Texas Sodomy laws are history - wooohooo!
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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>
I thought it was a secret homo code.
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
"One wants to be loved; failing this, to be admired;
failing this, to be
feared; failing even this, to be hated and despised.
One wants to arouse
some sort of feeling in people. The soul shrinks from
the void and wants
contact at any price."
~ Hjalmar Soderberg
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From: "bouncin ti--ies" <connierulz@yahoo.com>
That is here: http://www.cufsmaine.org/bdsmflag.htm
(it's not really that secret anymore)
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From: "Dunter Powries" <fech.redcap@spedlins>
Rev. Nickie <nickie@subgenius.com> wrote:
> ESPECAILLY READ THE LAST PART! LET'S MAKE X-DAY
666 A BUTTFUCKIN' GOOD
> TIME!!! ...
I don't have to do greek if I don't want to, though,
right? Because,
truthfully, I think it's kind of gross. Y'all are free
to do what you like,
I guess, just don't make me think too much about it.
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From: zosodada@aol.com (Zosodada)
<< I don't have to do greek if I don't want to, though, right?>>
Right, but then you'll have to do turk.
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From: "nu-monet v5.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>
Dunter Powries wrote:
> I don't have to do greek if I don't want to,
> though, right?
Sorry, it's THE LAW.
You'll need to get certified, though.
And licensed. And pay the annual fee.
And the inspection fee. And the use
permits.
And do the environmental impact statement.
And get the blood tests and sworn statements
that you are giving/receiving to/from someone
who is a) not underage; b) not a member of the
Catholic clergy; c) not currently undergoing
psychiatric institutionalization; and d) not
affiliated with any known terrorist organization.
Then HAVE FUN!
Which is THE LAW, too.
--
Rev. nu-monet
Founder and High Priest
Church of Kali, U.S.A. (Reformed)
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From: Wbarwell <Wbarwell@munnged.mylinuxisp.com>
Rev. Nickie wrote:
> ESPECAILLY READ THE LAST PART! LET'S MAKE X-DAY
666 A BUTTFUCKIN' GOOD
> TIME!!! -Rev. Nickie
I note on NPR today, various grey-faced, religous fanatic
Christian
untermenshen were doing double backed flips leaving
a arc of viscous droll
behind them.
Good.
I do note that Scalia grunted piglike, and lameneted
his
fellow SP dirtbags supprted the wrong side of the "Cultural
War".
Swell, just what we need, a far right creepy supreme
court moron
who's has signed up for the cultural war on the side
of the
anti-intellectual religous right.
--
When I shake my killfile, I can hear them buzzing!
Cheerful Charlie
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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>
If you are being trailed by vicious drolls it's time to leave Texas.
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
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From: "Dunter Powries" <fech.redcap@spedlins>
If they've had time to deploy into arcs it's already too late.
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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>
If they stopped by Denny's for some Double Backed Flips
though you
have time to manuever: think fast.
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
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