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"In his dissent in the Texas sodomy case, Thomas wrote, "just like Justice Stewart, I 'can find [neither in the Bill of Rights nor any other part of the Constitution a] general right of privacy,' or as the Court terms it today, the 'liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions.'"
Echoing Thomas' so-called conservative perspective, Rush Limbaugh said on his radio program on June 27, 2003, "There is no right to privacy specifically enumerated in the Constitution." Jerry Falwell similarly agreed on Fox News.
Limbaugh and Thomas may soon also point out to us that the Constitution doesn't specifically grant a right to marry, and thus license that function exclusively to, say, Falwell. The Constitution doesn't grant a right to eat, or to read, or to have children. Yet do we doubt these are rights we hold?
The simple reality is that there are many "rights" that are not specified in the Constitution, but which we daily enjoy and cannot be taken away from us by the government. But if that's the case, Bush and Thomas would say, why doesn't the Constitution list those rights in the Bill of Rights?
The reason is simple: the Constitution wasn't written as a vehicle to grant us rights. We don't derive our rights from the constitution.
Rather, in the minds of the Founders, human rights are inalienable - inseparable - from humans themselves. We are born with rights by simple fact of existence, as defined by John Locke and written by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident," the Founders wrote. Humans are "endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights...." These rights are clear and obvious, the Founders repeatedly said. They belong to us from birth, as opposed to something the Constitution must hand to us, and are more ancient than any government. "
Silas, Thomas, and Limbaugh, why am I not surprised?
yes i do love it, and thank goodness he opposes that awful law. But prettyhate, this is not a personal attack thread so if you dont like Interracial marriage or people who do or others who do, why come here to attack others posts? I think there is a disclaimer that we are not to make personal attacks.
yes i do love it, and thank goodness he opposes that awful law. But prettyhate, this is not a personal attack thread so if you dont like Interracial marriage or people who do or others who do, why come here to attack others posts? I think there is a disclaimer that we are not to make personal attacks.
please refrain, thanks
How was I personally attacking you? Unless you're Clarence Thomas the moron label doesn't apply to you. Reread my post, carolinajack.
I don't like Interracial marriage? Read the OP. I started it!!
And by all means do tell the administrator. Knock yourself out.
I sure hope theres no controversy there in this country cause I'm a White man that LOVES Latina women and I plan to get married to one and start a family with her
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