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BlueGreenLady

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Tue May 3, 2022, 03:50 PM May 2022

Anti-Abortion Activists In Mississippi 'Turning Their Gaze To Same-Sex Marriage'



How far will Republicans over-reach? What will be next on the Christo-fascist's radar? Same-sex marriage, contraception, and inter-racial marriage would be targets if the precedent Roe provided that guaranteed privacy in the bedroom. Keep the GQP out my bedroom.

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Anti-Abortion Activists In Mississippi 'Turning Their Gaze To Same-Sex Marriage' (Original Post) BlueGreenLady May 2022 OP
The right to privacy is now in danger LetMyPeopleVote May 2022 #1

LetMyPeopleVote

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1. The right to privacy is now in danger
Tue May 3, 2022, 08:42 PM
May 2022

This is the asshole who drafted the Texas abortion law. This asshole wants to strike down the implied right of privacy by getting Roe overruled which would/could lead to striking down the right to same sex marriage. interracial marriage, gay sex and other rights

There is a pattern here. These assholes want to get rid of Griswold and undo the right of privacy. That would cause Lawrence v. Texas (consensual same sex intercourse), Cooling v. Virginia (inter-racial marriage), birth control and same sex marriage to be overturned.



https://www.comicsands.com/jonathan-mitchell-overturn-gay-marriage-2655065691.html
Though Mitchell's brief, also signed by his co-counsel Adam Mortara, dedicates much of its time to the Texas abortion law's defense, it also questions "lawless" pieces of legislation, namely the Lawrence v. Texas ruling, which decriminalized gay sex nationwide, and the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which legalized same-sex marriage.

Though the brief does not say reversing Roe v. Wade would threaten the same-sex marriage ruling, it does say that

""the news is not as good for those who hope to preserve the court-invented rights to homosexual behavior and same-sex marriage …
"These 'rights,' like the right to abortion from Roe, are judicial concoctions, and there is no other source of law that can be invoked to salvage their existence."

It goes on to add that while the Supreme Court should not necessarily overturn Lawrence and Obergefell, it should consider these two rulings as "lawless" as Roe v. Wade and, by extension, Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

"This is not to say that the Court should announce the overruling of Lawrence and Obergefell if it decides to overrule Roe and Casey in this case."
"But neither should the Court hesitate to write an opinion that leaves those decisions hanging by a thread. Lawrence and Obergefell, while far less hazardous to human life, are as lawless as Roe."







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