Sex, Religion and the Constitution
In the Texas case the Supreme Court refused to review, an employee of an adult bookstore in El Paso was arrested in 2003 for selling a sex toy to undercover police officers. He was charged under the Texas law that bans the sale of an "obscene device" designed primarily "for the stimulation of human genital organs."
His attorney said the law was unconstitutional because it violated the right to sexual privacy without government interference. The court, which last year rejected a challenge to a similar Alabama law, denied the appeal without any comment.
Well maybe the court won't comment but I will. WHERE THE HELL ARE SEX TOYS MENTIONED AS A RIGHT IN THE CONSTITUTION? Oh Damn, sorry...it's right here...Amendment sixty-nine. Congress shall make no law infringing the right of the people to twiddle their winkies with whatever doohickies they so choose.
The justices also rejected an appeal brought by Jonas and Tiffany Eklund, who contended that the Byron Union School District, east of San Francisco, violated constitutional guarantees separating church and state when it required students in a world history class to read pages from the opening chapter of the Koran and study Islam's Five Pillars of Faith in a unit on Muslim culture.
"Parents entrust public schools with educating their children, not indoctrinating them in religion," the Eklunds' attorneys stated in a brief asking the Supreme Court to take the case. "The public school here had children become Muslims for three weeks."
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that the activities were not overt religious exercises and therefore did not raise constitutional concerns.
Wanna bet if they'd had them read the Bible and study the 10 Commandments, the appeal would have have been heard? It's OK as long as it isn't Christian.
His attorney said the law was unconstitutional because it violated the right to sexual privacy without government interference. The court, which last year rejected a challenge to a similar Alabama law, denied the appeal without any comment.
Well maybe the court won't comment but I will. WHERE THE HELL ARE SEX TOYS MENTIONED AS A RIGHT IN THE CONSTITUTION? Oh Damn, sorry...it's right here...Amendment sixty-nine. Congress shall make no law infringing the right of the people to twiddle their winkies with whatever doohickies they so choose.
The justices also rejected an appeal brought by Jonas and Tiffany Eklund, who contended that the Byron Union School District, east of San Francisco, violated constitutional guarantees separating church and state when it required students in a world history class to read pages from the opening chapter of the Koran and study Islam's Five Pillars of Faith in a unit on Muslim culture.
"Parents entrust public schools with educating their children, not indoctrinating them in religion," the Eklunds' attorneys stated in a brief asking the Supreme Court to take the case. "The public school here had children become Muslims for three weeks."
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that the activities were not overt religious exercises and therefore did not raise constitutional concerns.
Wanna bet if they'd had them read the Bible and study the 10 Commandments, the appeal would have have been heard? It's OK as long as it isn't Christian.
posted by Dalt Danyon at 8:15 PM
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