Looks like dumblaws.com will have one less law to make fun of. The U.S. Supreme Court finally did something right after its idiotic ruling on race in university admissions:
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Thursday sodomy laws that make it a crime for people of the same sex to engage in “deviate sexual intercourse,” a ruling that gives gay rights advocates a major victory.
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The 30-year-old Texas “homosexual conduct” law makes it a crime for same-sex couples to engage in “deviate sexual intercourse,” defined as oral and anal sex, even if it is consensual and occurs in the privacy of a person’s bedroom. Violators face a maximum punishment of a $500 fine.
The ruling will invalidate sodomy laws that exist in 13 states. Besides Texas, the other states are Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia.
This only a mere 35 years after Pierre Trudeau made his famous statement that “the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation” and got Canada’s nose out of people’s private business.
The state has no place in our financial or health records either. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to be fixed.
The state has a vested interest in ensuring that you pay your fair share of taxes. As such, the state has the full right to look into our financial affairs. There is even a word for that… “audit”. If you don’t like it, move up North and live like a hermit, and don’t come back to the city when you need publicly funded stuff like healthcare.
And, speaking of healthcare, what exactly does the government do to intrude on health care privacy?