Three Years of Hell to Become the Devil: 'The Ghosts of Jamestown'

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'The Ghosts of Jamestown'

The aptly-named Adam Goodheart writes good-heartedly of colonial sodomites and the long history of anti-sodomy laws in the United States.

Because he's for the decision, he doesn't say vitriolically what his article makes perfectly clear: that Justice Kennedy writing for the majority in Lawrence v. Texas relied on some of the most meretricious junk history in order to prop up his ruling. Fair play, I've never liked anti-sodomy laws, and I don't care that somewhere, some gay folk are having sex. But the double-think required to go along with this past month's Supreme Court rulings is just too much. I can agree with the results of the decisions whilst still being ashamed of the manner in which they're justified.

Posted by Anthony on July 3, 2003 5:43 PM | Permalink

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Welcome to law school. It won't get any better--ever. Become a legal realist while there's still time. Save yourself the trouble of writing law review articles for the rest of your life analyzing dissents from eighty years ago. I personally treat the SC opinions as I do editorial page writings. Interesting, but logically coherent and rationale? Not most of the time. They do make (or should I say interpret?) the "law of the land," however . . .

Posted by: asdf (aka Troll) | July 7, 2003 11:49 PM

Make that "rational" . . . Too many Harps.

Posted by: asdf | July 8, 2003 12:06 AM

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