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Originally Posted by guy44
Blech. Scalia should be pitied and despised for his views regarding homosexuality, though I fall short of advocating hate.
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Why should he be either pitied or despised? His views are as valid as any.
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I mean...ok, he said:
"I would no more require a State to criminalize homosexual acts--or, for that matter, display any moral disapprobation of them--than I would forbid it to do so."
Let's change a phrase.
"I would no more require a State to criminalize slavery--or, for that matter, display any moral disapprobation of them--than I would forbid it to do so."
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If you change the phrase, the meaning is changed.
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Sodomy laws are an outrageous intrusion of the government into the right of individuals to have control over their own bodies. Obviously, it is not as bad as slavery, but in a far more limited sense, it is analogous.
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It's not analogous at all. They are two different things entirely. Trying to falsely link his comments to ones that support slavery is disengenuous. I could just as easily say that child molestation, polygamy, narcotic, or domestic abuse laws are outrageous intrusions of the government, but that doesn't make it so.