Re: The gay thing

From: Anne Carle (acarle_at_munge.com)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:44:38 -0400

Perfectly logical.

Anne/OH

On 22 Oct 2004 03:34:12 GMT, sanditypes@aol.comshazbot (SANDITYPES)
wrote:

>Here's my 2 cents on "the gay thing," which coincidentally was debated in my
>Con Law class today via the "two sodomy cases," wherein the Supreme Court first
>upheld a state's sodomy laws and later reversed itself and held them to be
>unconstitutional. My professor theorized, and I agree, that homosexual people
>will be the next "suspect class," that is, the next group of people held to be
>deserving of strict scrutiny of any law that might discriminate against them
>under the Equal Protection clause; this is oversimplified, of course, so as not
>to induce snoring. Previous suspect classes have included black people (for
>whom it was originally written), aliens (not the little green type), and
>others.
>
>But this is my personal opinion, not any legal argument I would make:
>
>Basically, what two (or three or four) consenting adults do is none of the
>government's business. Period. If they want to hang a trapeze from the
>ceiling and throw water balloons at one another, who cares? Who's being hurt
>here?
>
>Likewise, if they want to commit to spend their lives and their money together,
>more power to them! Just doubles my client pool when I do family law in a few
>years. ;) Seriously, how can I say that two women are less committed to one
>another than my first (or second, for that matter) husbands and I were? Does
>it really matter? If hetero couples can marry and divorce at will, so what if
>homosexual couples might do the same thing? Again I ask, who is being hurt
>here? Am I less married to my husband if my friend and her girlfriend contract
>to act as one unit?
>
>Finally, as far as I'm concerned, being against homosexuality is like being
>against blue eyes....you can be against it all you want, but if someone has
>blue eyes, they have blue eyes.
>
>Sandi

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