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.
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?
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.
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!
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!
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?”
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…
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?