Lest We Forget...

I noted in an earlier opinion the fact that the American Association of Law Schools (to which any reputable law school must seek to belong) excludes from membership any school that refuses to ban from its job-interview facilities a law firm (no matter how small) that does not wish to hire as a prospective partner a person who openly engages in homosexual conduct.

One of the most revealing statements in today’s opinion is the Court’s grim warning that the criminalization of homosexual conduct is “an invitation to subject homosexual persons to discrimination both in the public and in the private spheres.”

It is clear from this that the Court has taken sides in the culture war, departing from its role of assuring, as neutral observer, that the democratic rules of engagement are observed.

Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children’s schools, or as boarders in their home.

They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive. The Court views it as “discrimination” which it is the function of our judgments to deter.

Rest In Peace.
May History Judge You More Kindly Than You Saw Fit to Judge Others...

(Wouldn't it be a hoot if St. Peter is a gay man, who objects to boarding a bigot in his stable in the sky?  Talk about turnabout being fairplay -- it's not discrimination, just protecting himself and his heavenly family from a judgmental streak that many, on earth and in heaven, believe to be immoral and destructive...)

Again, just sad that such a big family man died alone, with Last Rites posthumously provided, a death certificate called-in, and a middle-of-the-night embalming without an autopsy.  It doesn't dignifty the office that the body seems to have been treated no better than a common unnamed pauper, with all expenses spared.