Res Ipsa Loquitur

Before the Supreme Court rules that the Founders had the right to practice sodomy in mind when they wrote the Constitution, we should ask where the chipping away at law and morality is leading us.

While I agree those are always legitimate concerns, I think he's wrong that if we allow sodomy, then we can't draw the line to stop other more undesirable behavior. Of course we can...we do it all the time. Polygamy? Nope, 2 people per marriage please. Besides, how many guys really want multiple wives nagging at them constantly? Or how many women would want multiple husbands? The toilet seats would always be up, and who would get control of the remote? And then there's that perennial favorite, pedophilia.

Pedophiles who wish to have sex with children assert they should not be prohibited from doing so as long as the child "consents." There is a movement within psychiatry to have pedophilia removed from the shrinking list of "deviant" behaviors, as was done with homosexual practice. What is to prohibit them from doing so if pedophiles testify their fulfillment is being denied, and they feel discriminated against for practicing what, to them, is normal? Since truth is now in the mind and genitalia of the beholder, how can anyone with a different mindset (or different genitalia) tell anyone else how and when to engage in any sexual act in which he or she might wish to indulge?

Nice try Cal, but that dog won't hunt. A child is incapable of consenting due to their age...which is why we have statutory rape laws. Children do not have the intellectual capacity to make that kind of decision...which is also why they aren't allowed to enter into contracts, drink, drive cars, smoke or gamble. And if a pedophile's fulfillment is denied, so what? We deny, and rightly so, the "fulfillment" of serial killers, necrophiliacs, and zoophiliacs....because some behavior is so repugnant and damaging to a civilized society that it cannot be tolerated.

And then there's the ultimate horror:

Adoption laws in some states now give children to same-sex couples. If the Texas sodomy law falls, "marriage" will be redefined and the demise of the human family will be complete.

I was unaware that homosexual couples do not constitute a "human family". Puh-lease. I hate to burst Cal's bubble, but there's all kinds of families...always have been. If anything, the Cleavers are an anomaly. Families are defined by relationships, not gender. Look around out here in the real world, Cal...you will be surprised at what you find.

NOTE: This post is about line-drawing & the law, not the morality or immorality of homosexuality. If you choose to ignore this distinction in your comments, I reserve the right to delete your comments and/or ban your IP. Go post it on your own blog.