The democrats have been pontificating of late about whether Sam Alito represents the mainstream of America. Yet strangely, I did not hear those echoes 12 years ago when another Person was nominated to the supreme court and got all but 3 votes (for the math challenged, that means over 40 Republicans voted for the nominee as well) in their confirmation hearing. See if you can place these quotes:
Prostitution, as a consensual act between adults, is arguably within the zone of privacy protected by recent constitutional decisions.
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Sex-segregated adult or juvenile institutions are obviously separate and in a variety of ways, unequal.
"If the grand design of such institutions is to prepare inmates for return to the community as persons equipped to benefit from and contribute to civil society, then perpetuation of single-sex institutions should be rejected.
I am sure the rapists are in full support of that one!
[T]he provision (prohibiting bigamists from voting or holding office) is of questionable constitutionality since it appears to encroach impermissibly upon private relationships.
That one gets the Mormon vote.
The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, while ostensibly providing 'separate but equal' benefits to both sexes, perpetuate stereotyped sex roles to the extent that they carry out congressionally-mandated purposes.
Uh, not quite as both organizations were privately started independent of each other. Separate but Equal was never an issue.
Replacing 'Mother's Day' and 'Father's Day' with a 'Parents' Day' should be considered, as an observance more consistent with a policy of minimizing traditional sex-based differences in parental roles.
Minimizing something that evolution has decided is the best way to propagate a species? It chose a different course for Sea Horses, and they seem to thrive, but then Man is not a Sea Horse.
So we see that while some of America would definitely go for these ideas, no one can honestly argue that a majority, and therefore Mainstream America, would.
And Ruth Buzzi still was confirmed. Oh how quickly hypocrites forget their own tongue wagging so quickly.
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