Re: Undermining Society's Morals

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marie A.) wrote...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Spartakus) wrote...
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Papa Jack) wrote...

> > > WE ARE NOT DISCUSSING WHAT THE MORAL CODE SHOULD 
> > > BE.  We are discussing  WHO (i.e., the legislatures 
> > > or the courts) should be influenced by those moral 
> > > codes when enacting laws.

> > Disingenuous fuckwit.  If you are not pushing *your* idea of what
> > society's morals should be, what is with the subject line "Undermining
> > Society's Morals"?
> > 
> > And, btw, why do you think the legislature is *less* likely to
> > "undermine society's morals" than the courts?

> Thank you for asking. Because historically what the left knows they
> can't get through legislative bodies responsive to the will of the
> people, they run to a receptive judicial ear with. No better example
> of this can be found than in Roe v Wade.

You don't know much about history - several states had already made
abortion legal *before* Roe vs. Wade was decided.  And anyway, that
argument cuts both ways, doesn't it?

What the right knows they can't get through legislative bodies
responsive to the will of the people, they run to a receptive judicial
ear with. No better example of this can be found than in Bush vs.
Gore.