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Subject: Re: Georgia vs Hardwick
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Date: Fri, 11-Jul-86 14:37:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 11 14:37:00 1986
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> This is not the only piece of flamage that I've seen on the net
> claiming that the Georgia sodomy law applies to both homo- and
> heterosexuals.  However, I read an article in the Boston Globe which
> said that the law only applied to oral/genital contact BETWEEN MEMBERS
> OF THE SAME SEX.

> Could someone please confirm this?  If true, it seems that much of the
> hysteria coming from straights is highly exaggerated.

It seems to me that the real problem here is that a precedent establishes
gradual encroachment of individual liberty and freedom of choice on many
levels of private life.  Legally, if governmental agencies are given the
OK to legislate (or ENFORCE) individual behavior, no matter how heinous that
behavior is to you or me, then the incline to 1984 type control has just begun.
I don't feel hysterical at all and I have no personal stake in the outcome of
this particular law.  This doesn't exclude me from being a truly concerned
citizen who doesn't want a governmmental agency to make his moral decisions
for him in any way, form, shape, or color.  Neither now, nor in the future.