# Supreme Court strikes down gay sex ban **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520 "2003-06-26T14:58:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/41 "2003-06-26T22:24:16Z")
> [@](#): > > It sounds a lot more interesting than our Heterosexual Agenda meetings. 1. Reading of last week’s minutes. 2. Old business. 3. Think about getting sex. 4. Wish we could get sex. 5. Keynote speaker: Jenna Jameson. 6. Ogling. 7. Brunch. 8. Closing remarks. > [@](#): > > Also, bigamy and polygamy same-sex marriage are already regulated under different laws and this decision has nothing to do with it. I’m trying to remember whether it was a Straight Dope column or someone on this board who explained that polygamy is a matter of contract law, not sex. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/42 "2003-06-26T23:28:35Z")
I’m sorry, please strike my item from the Homosexual Agenda. I’ll be busy with the Jewish Agenda that afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/43 "2003-06-27T00:01:06Z")
Well, polygamy laws, yes. But they should keep BIGAMY laws on hand-isn’t that when someone marries someone else, without telling their new spouse they’re already married? ---
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/44 "2003-06-27T00:20:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* > \*\*One more blow for freedom. \*\* **Jonathan** , I don’t know whether you intended that to be offensive, or the single most witty remark I have ever seen. I am assuming witty, and giggling uncontrollably. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/45 "2003-06-27T01:19:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*Well, polygamy laws, yes. But they should keep BIGAMY laws on hand-isn’t that when someone marries someone else, without telling their new spouse they’re already married? \*\* No, I think it’s bigamy whether or not all parties know about each other. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/46 "2003-06-27T01:46:02Z")
**Cher3** , I noticed the “homosexual agenda” also. His comments are a good example of how much personal opinion and _misinformation_ can have an effect on rulings. Shame on Scalia. This is good for the whole country. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/47 "2003-06-27T01:47:19Z")
If I hadn’t been visiting the folks when I heard the news, I would have shouted for joy! I’m sure some people are spluttering with outrage out there, but I don’t care. Bring on the champagne, my lads, this one’s _worth_ celebrating! CJ Oh, why not. I may be straight as a board, but I’ll still do the happy naked dance around the living room for this one! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/48 "2003-06-27T02:45:24Z")
Ooh this is where I get to be all smug-like in my Canuckian splendor. _When_ was it that (future) Prime Minister (then Minister of Justice) Pierre Trudeau said “The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation?” More than twenty years ago? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Heh. And also, a big neener-neener to the vile rightie pundit who was making an ass of himself on CNN tonight. He can puff up like a bullfrog all he wants, his son is still getting that perfectly legal b.j. in Florida tonight! ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/49 "2003-06-27T03:10:13Z")
My favorite part of the decision (at least of what I’ve skimmed to date) - > [@](#): > > To say that the issue in Bowers was simply the right to engage in certain sexual conduct demeans the claim the individual put forward, just as it would demean a married couple were it said that marriage is just about the right to have sexual intercourse. WORD!! 'Tis a good day in the neighborhood! ---
**Author:** ![SnugTheJoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/50 "2003-06-27T05:47:00Z")
Ye gods. Who’d have thought it? First same-sex marriage is okayed in canada, and now this. And both came to pass in Gay Pride Month. Yessss! (Snug does the Snoopy dance) ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/51 "2003-06-27T06:59:14Z")
Well, this is great. Another step taken towards the 20th century. If Pricegal were a guy, we’d celebrate appropriately. Ah, to heck with it, we will anyway. Honey…? ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/52 "2003-06-27T07:04:32Z")
This is good news for gay people and bad news for Strom. When he hears this the news will kill the old fart. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/53 "2003-06-27T10:17:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Seven \* > \*\*This is good news for gay people and bad news for Strom. When he hears this the news will kill the old fart. \*\* [The Onion] The senator then died. [/The Onion] ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/54 "2003-06-27T10:18:19Z")
Funny you should say that, **Seven** … ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/55 "2003-06-27T10:29:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > \*\*Funny you should say that, **Seven** … \*\* [Oh Jeebus](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/06/27/MN272836.DTL). I don’t know whether to laugh or cry… ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/56 "2003-06-27T11:49:19Z")
Eek! Sorry but this ignorant foreigner did not even realise that there still were such laws. Well - I’m very glad they are on their way out then. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/57 "2003-06-27T12:35:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jr8 \* > \*\*[Oh Jeebus](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/06/27/MN272836.DTL). I don’t know whether to laugh or cry… \*\* I’m laughing my ass off. I always wondered what it would take to kill that old guy. Regarding refreshments at the next gay agenda meeting, may I suggest the aforementioned deviled eggs, deviled ham and devil’s food cake? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/58 "2003-06-27T12:56:10Z")
I was talking to my mother last night and mentioned, “the Supreme Court says we can have sodomy.” “Yes, I know, I read it in the newspaper,” she said, “That’s very nice, dear—but it’s not _mandatory_ now, is it?” ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/59 "2003-06-27T13:19:10Z")
You do realize, **Eve** , that last night _somewhere_ (probably many somewheres) in this Great Land of Ours, wives/girfriends were rushing to develop new arguments, anticipating that long-denied husbands/boyfriends were going to show up with constitutional arguments… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sengkelat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Sengkelat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sengkelat)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520/60 "2003-06-27T13:37:18Z")
I’m a bit late to the party, but WOOHOO!!! This is fabulous, fabulous news. Erm, was it wrong for me to find it funny that O’Connor’s opinion mentioned that sodomy convictions could prevent persons from becoming interior designers? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-sex-ban/184520.md?page=4)