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Related: About this forumTrumps Potential SCOTUS Pick Has Said Crazy Awful Things About Queer People
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-scotus-pick-william-h-pryor_us_582dc4d6e4b099512f81176dOne of President-elect Donald Trumps possible choices to fill the vacancy in the Supreme Court of the United States is a judge whose career is marked with anti-LGBT acts. William H. Pryor, Jr., is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta. His name has been mentioned as one of multiple potential nominees for the SCOTUS seat. Pryors anti-LGBT agenda certainly makes him stand out.
In 2003, he argued to uphold Texas law criminalizing consensual LGBT sex, RawStory noted. Thus, making it illegal for LGBT individuals to have sex in the privacy of their own homes. This Court has never recognized a fundamental right to engage in sexual activity outside of monogamous heterosexual marriage, let alone to engage in homosexual sodomy, Pryor wrote in his brief. Such a right would be antithetical to the traditional relation of the family that is as old and as fundamental as our entire civilization.
He added that citizens have no fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy just because it is done behind closed doors. Plainly enough, otherwise illegal conduct is not always immunized whenever it occurs in the home Because homosexual sodomy has not historically been recognized in this country as a right to the contrary, it has historically been recognized as a wrong it is not a fundamental right.
He contended that Texas was not the only state in the nation with these views.
Texas is hardly alone in concluding that homosexual sodomy may have severe physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual consequences, which do not necessarily attend heterosexual sodomy, and from which Texass citizens need to be protected. Texass conclusion, which is shared by other States, is certainly open to debate, but a statute does not become irrational for purposes of equal protection review just because some may hotly disagree with it.
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Trumps Potential SCOTUS Pick Has Said Crazy Awful Things About Queer People (Original Post)
Grey Lemercier
Nov 2016
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Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)1. He is both an asshole and a prick. So he can just go fuck himself. nt
longship
(40,416 posts)2. "This Court has never recognized a fundamental right to engage in sexual activity outside of..."
"This Court has never recognized a fundamental right to engage in sexual activity outside of monogamous heterosexual marriage."
Does he mean other than the striking down of sodomy laws?
LostOne4Ever
(9,290 posts)3. I am not religious-but I am praying that Ruth Ginsburg is immortal. nt
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