High court to decide whether states' sodomy laws are Constitutional

High court to decide whether states' sodomy laws are Constitutional...

"In the days of Sodom, so too were men giving themselves over to all the pleasures of the flesh: eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage. All manner of sinful lusts are being committed. Men shameful with men, women casting aside their role of motherhood and lusting after women. As it was in the days of Sodom, so now is this black cloud over America." - Our Lady, July 14, 1979

A December 31, 2002 article by the Ledger-Enquirer reports:

Four states - Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas - have so-called same-sex sodomy laws, which the Supreme Court has agreed to review. These statutes impose criminal sanctions on certain types of sexual contact between gays or lesbians, primarily anal and oral sex, that are entirely legal for heterosexuals.
     Another nine states - Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia - have sodomy laws that apply to all adults, gay or straight, but that tend to be enforced selectively against homosexuals.
     Critics say that distinction is unfair. They argue that a moral double standard is being imposed in states with same-sex prohibitions, depriving gay citizens of their right to intimate relations and resulting in unequal protection under the law....
     Supporters of the laws disagree, arguing that society has the right to declare certain behavior immoral, and has long recognized legal differences between heterosexuals and gays in areas such as marriage law. Opposition to homosexual sodomy can be found in religious texts and common law, they note. And laws against certain sex acts such as adultery, pedophilia and incest are common.
     Furthermore, supporters point out that the Supreme Court in 1986 declared there was no fundamental constitutional right to homosexual sodomy in a Georgia case known as Bowers vs. Hardwick. That 5-4 decision rejected the notion that an essential right to privacy shielded adult gays from government interference in their sex lives.
     "It's hard to imagine the people who wrote the Constitution could imagine a right to engage in conduct that was a serious criminal offense both at the time the Constitution was drafted and in all 50 states as late as 1961," said Bill Delmore, a Houston assistant district attorney. His office is defending Texas' same-sex sodomy law before the Supreme Court.

"As in Sodom and Gomorrah, mankind had gone down and given itself over to satan. I ask you now, My children, to turn back from your road to destruction, for you will be surely destroyed as was the time of Sodom and Gomorrah. Homosexuality shall not be condoned. It is an abomination in the eyes of the Eternal Father, and as such, is condemning many to hell." - Jesus, June 18, 1991

Directives from Heaven...

D24 - Homosexuality, Part 1
D174 - Homosexuality, Part 2

Articles…

91% of the sex-abuse victims were male
http://www.tldm.org/News5/victims.htm

The Pope and a Vatican official speak out against homosexuals in the Catholic priesthood

http://www.tldm.org/News5/gays_in_priesthood.htm

“This hapless bench of bishops”

http://www.tldm.org/News5/hapless.htm

Links...

High court to decide whether states' sodomy laws are Constitutional, Ledger-Enquirer, December 31, 2002

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/nation/4847056.htm

Cardinal Jorge Medina Estévez responds to questions on the ordination of homosexuals, Adoremus website
http://www.adoremus.org/Notitiae-Ordination.html

Gays face ban on ever becoming priests, Sydney Morning Herald, December 10, 2002

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/09/1039379788539.html

Clear Vatican statement against ordination of homosexuals, DioceseReport, December 5, 2002
http://www.diocesereport.com/special/vatican_homo_seminarian.shtml

Vatican Department says no to gay priests, December 5, 2002
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/4672754.htm

Vatican Monsignor says gays shouldn’t be priests, Washington Times, September 20, 2002

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020920-85049356.htm

Catholic official argues against gay priests, Modesto Bee, September 19, 2002

http://www.modbee.com/24hour/nation/story/543081p-4290797c.html

Pope to Church: Risky seminarians must go, National Catholic Register, Sept. 15-21, 2002

http://www.ncregister.com/Register_News/091002sem.htm

Pope John Paul II: Men with deviant affections can’t be priests, ABC News, September 5, 2002

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20020905_339.html

Critics decry panel silence on gay priests, Washington Post, June 6, 2002

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020606-84197292.htm

1961 Vatican document forbidding ordination of homosexuals
http://www.tldm.org/News4/Vatican1961doc.htm

Early Church teaching on homosexuality
http://www.catholic.com/library/Early_Teachings_on_Homosexuality.asp

Open Letter of the Catholic Medical Association to the U.S. bishops
http://www.cathmed.org/news_detail.asp?id=41&tableID=news

Catholic Medical Association: Homosexuality and Hope
http://www.cathmed.org/hhwebsite3.html

Bernardin’s Boys
http://www.rcf.org/docs/bernardinsboys.htm

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