I’m going to put together a list of interesting (or entertaining) quotes on Lawrence v. Texas. Here are a few, for starters.

”There is a strength and passion to the decision… it doesn’t just overturn Bowers, it trashes it.”

– David Garrow, Emory University law professor, praising the ruling

“Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the three [dissenters], called the ruling ‘the invention of a brand-new “constitutional right” by a Court that is impatient of democratic change.’ It is the same argument made in 1967 for upholding a Virginia law banning marriage between blacks and whites. The idea that minorities must wait for the majority to recognize their basic rights is as wrong today as it was then.”

– Friday’s lead editorial in the New York Times

And here is one of my favorites:

“The court is forcing San Francisco values on the whole country.”

– Peter LaBarbera, senior policy analyst for the Culture and Family Institute (from the Boston Globe)

More as I find them.
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