The slippery slope gets steeper
The SCOTUS' abominable decision in Lawrence v. Texas that elevated rump-rangering to the lofty status of enshrined constitution right seems like it was handed down so much longer ago than it really was. But even if it only seems old, I have no difficulty recalling Senator Rick Santorum's prescient argument that it would lead rapidly to the establishment of sodomarriage, and how he was obligatorily pilloried for it by the lavender lobby and other fellow-travelers.
That prediction was fulfilled in a scant four months after Lawrence.
I also recall many of us on the social right predicting, just as presciently, that just as Roe v Wade was the slippery slope to the death culture that dominates our society today which its defenders pooh-poohed at the time, so Lawrence would open a Pandora's box of all kinds of social engineeering via judicial diktat. Last November the sodomarriage cherry was popped, and now comes polygamy.
"Tom Green is an American polygamist. This month, he will appeal his conviction in Utah for that offense to the United States Supreme Court, in a case that could redefine the limits of marriage, privacy and religious freedom.
"If the court agrees to take the case, it would be forced to confront a 126-year-old decision allowing states to criminalize polygamy that few would find credible today, even as they reject the practice. And it could be forced to address glaring contradictions created in recent decisions of constitutional law.
"For polygamists, it is simply a matter of unequal treatment under the law."
Well, natch. Just as the same will no doubt go for orgyists, beastialists, incestors, and pederasts. And let's not forget geeks who want to wed their blowup dolls, and women who seek matrimony with their vibrators. If the Fourteenth Amendment can be eviscerated to consecrate "unions" of the sexually retrograde, by what logic - legal or otherwise - does one argue against the same constitutional recognition of ever more depraved applications of it?
Oh, Mr. Green may not "come out on top" - this time. But I wouldn't bet against him, or others who will follow, even in the short term.
They are highly skilled, after all, in the greasing of...um, skids...
That prediction was fulfilled in a scant four months after Lawrence.
I also recall many of us on the social right predicting, just as presciently, that just as Roe v Wade was the slippery slope to the death culture that dominates our society today which its defenders pooh-poohed at the time, so Lawrence would open a Pandora's box of all kinds of social engineeering via judicial diktat. Last November the sodomarriage cherry was popped, and now comes polygamy.
"Tom Green is an American polygamist. This month, he will appeal his conviction in Utah for that offense to the United States Supreme Court, in a case that could redefine the limits of marriage, privacy and religious freedom.
"If the court agrees to take the case, it would be forced to confront a 126-year-old decision allowing states to criminalize polygamy that few would find credible today, even as they reject the practice. And it could be forced to address glaring contradictions created in recent decisions of constitutional law.
"For polygamists, it is simply a matter of unequal treatment under the law."
Well, natch. Just as the same will no doubt go for orgyists, beastialists, incestors, and pederasts. And let's not forget geeks who want to wed their blowup dolls, and women who seek matrimony with their vibrators. If the Fourteenth Amendment can be eviscerated to consecrate "unions" of the sexually retrograde, by what logic - legal or otherwise - does one argue against the same constitutional recognition of ever more depraved applications of it?
Oh, Mr. Green may not "come out on top" - this time. But I wouldn't bet against him, or others who will follow, even in the short term.
They are highly skilled, after all, in the greasing of...um, skids...
posted by JASmius at 11:22 PM
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