4 Apr 2013 12:29 pm
What law? What are you talking about? He's not trying to get a law passed. He's trying to get a federal appeals court to reverse their decision that struck down Virginia's sodomy law as unconstitutional. So what? For over 200 years, the Constitution was never held to rule on this at all. Why shouldn't it be left to our elected representatives, not to an unaccountable court? Summary In a 6-3 opinion, the Court struck down a Texas statute that criminalized homosexual sodomy. In doing so, the Court overturned the 17-year-old precedent of Bowers v. Hardwick, the 1986 Supreme Court case declaring the Constitution does not speak to, and does not forbid states from prohibiting homosexual conduct a crime..... Indeed, sodomy was prohibited by all 13 states when they ratified the Bill of Rights. With their invention of this new “right,” the judges conferred constitutional status to a policy issue not even addressed by the Constitution, thereby removing it from the democratic process where it rightly belongs. http://www.heritage....awrence-v-texas