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From: ooblick@unirot.UUCP (Mikki Barry)
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Subject: Re: Supreme Court Ruling on Sodomy
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Date: Sun, 13-Jul-86 09:24:44 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 13 09:24:44 1986
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Summary: whose morality would you like to choose?

>In article <318@hp-sdd.UUCP> nick@hp-sdd.UUCP (Nick Flor) writes:
>>I never said it would stop homosexual activity.  But maybe it'll make them
>>think about it a little more.  Maybe it'll serve as a guideline for those
>>youngsters in society and make them turn away from homosexual activities.

Why should they?  Because *you* don't approve of it?  I think this is an
important point since you go on to speak about morals...

>Perhaps you should keep in mind that the original reason this went to the
>Supreme Court in the first place was for the illegality of ORAL SEX!  The
>two people charged under the Georgia law were males having oral sex.  The
>Georgia law that was upheld was not an anal sex law against homosexuals, it
>was an oral and/or anal sex law against ANYONE!
>
>This includes two people of the opposite sex that are married.
>
>In this light, does it change your opinion of the ruling?  Do you wish the
>government to certify ok and not ok sexual habits?  [me]

    But to seriously answer your questions:
    NO and YES. 

    The line has to be drawn somewhere.  Hasn't anyone else noticed the moral
    decay in this country, or is everyone afraid of getting flamed or called
    a Bible thumper?  

Whose morals would you like to impose?  Congress'?  Yours?  Why does this
"line have to be drawn"?  Because *you* don't approve of certain sexual
practices?  Why can't it just be left at you have your kind of sex and
I'll have mine?  It certainly can't be for health reasons, because oral
sex doesn't spread any diseases.

I, for one, resent the government telling me and my husband what we can
and can't do in bed.  Does anyone else think sexual freedom is an
unreasonable wish?

Mikki Barry