Re: slightly unrealted note.
James wrote:Aineo,
Out of curiosity what is your feeling about the state enforcing leviticus. ex texas sodomy laws etc.?
My personal feeling, especially since I lived in Houston, Texas for 23 years, is if the state is going to enforce Lev 18:22 then it should also enforce Lev 18:20.
"Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda though normal democratic means," Scalia wrote.
But with Thursday's decision, he wrote, the court was "departing from its role in assuring, as neutral observer, that the democratic rules of engagement are observed."
Thursday's ruling stemmed from the 1998 arrest of two Houston men, John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner, under a 28-year-old Texas law making same-sex intercourse a crime. The court found that law and others like it violated the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/26/scotus.sodomy/
If you study the background of this case the State of Texas volated due process and then invoked the sodomy laws. What conservative Christians see as the legalization of sodomy is actually the preservation of the 14th Ammendment.
Amendment XIV
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
By prohibiting gay sex and not prohibiting fornication or adultery the State is not providing “equal protection under the law” and is fact lifting heterosexual immorality above God’s law.
I agree with the Supreme Court's ruling.