From: Dionisio 

Andrealphus wrote:
> Not to mention the fact that not all Communists are atheists.   I'm sure
> that is another factoid that PG didn't get from his preacher.

That's not exactly a safe assumption, you know.


--
And the Thought of the Moment (TM) is:

For example, the Court in _Cleveland Board of Education v LaFleur_ [414
U.S. 632 (1974)]
declared that "it has long recognized that freedom of personal choice
in matters of
marriage and family life is one of the liberties protected by the Due
Process Clause of
the Fourteenth Amendment".

Furthermore, in _Moore v City of East Cleveland_ [431 U.S. 494 (1977)], the
Court held
that the state cannot "standardiz[e]" its citizens" by
forcing them all to live in certain
narrowly defined family patterns," and in _Roberts v United States
Jaycees_ [486 U.S. 609
(1984)] that freedom of association extends to "certain kinds of
personal relationships"
that "act as critical buffers between the individual and the power of
the state." So it
seems that the government "simply has no authority to pressure
individuals into heterosexual relationships, by giving only those
relationships the benefits and protections of the
law"[*].

* _Sexual Orientation and the Law_, the Editors of the Harvard Law Review,
Harvard
University Press, 1989.
-- relayer{at}netcom.com (Heather Downs), 4 Jan 1995

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