The More Things Change
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
If a deacon were to announce a rally entitled “God Hates Fags” to begin on the church lawn and stroll the sidewalks to City Hall, but the local NAMBLA chapter obtained a court order restraining her from holding the rally or from making future comments unflattering to gays on the grounds that the Bible is hate speech, which side would the present Supreme Court favor: freedom of speech and religion? Or gay rights?
Are you sure about that?
Illinois Nazis marching through Jewish neighborhoods was protected in 1977 and cross-burning was protected in 1992. But back in those ignorant, bigoted times, homosexuality was still a mental illness and gay sex was a criminal act. Today . . . ?
Joe Doakes
The definitions of criminality and insanity are both tools of the state.
July 10th, 2015 at 9:06 am
I know that Justice Thomas was aching to write in his dissent “This justice finds little dignity in sodomy.”
July 10th, 2015 at 10:28 am
In an environment of moral ambiguity, righteousness is often defined by the size of the check.
July 10th, 2015 at 10:41 am
The definitions of criminality and insanity are both tools of the state.
Assuring that they will be used both criminally and insanely.
July 10th, 2015 at 12:20 pm
It was in there, Mingo.