Re: Allen, what do you think about these judicial decisions?

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

I'll take a look at those cited web pages.  Thanks!

 > From: http://www.aol.com/~AAsch
 > Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 04:53:44 EDT
 >
 > In a message dated 8/11/2004 4:11:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
 > http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert writes:
 > 
 > > To: http://www.aol.com/~AAsch
 > > 
 > > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20040726/016708.html
 > 
 > Hey Robert,
 > 
 > I had seen a news article on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision 
 > upholding Alabama's "sex toy" ban. I finally got a chance to read the actual 
 > decision (in PDF format at 
 > http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data2/circs/11th/0216135p.pdf).
 > 
 > I'm surprised at the tone of both the majority opinion and the dissent. 
 > They're still pretty polite compared to the flame wars on the internet, but 
 > they're nasty compared to most court opinions. The majority takes a
 > particularly demeaning tone regarding the ACLU.
 > 
 > The majority and dissent actually discuss two somewhat open legal questions 
 > in which I've been interested lately. One question is about the limits to the 
 > constitutional right to privacy. The other question concerns whether "morality" 
 > 
 > is a legitimate state purpose for passing laws.
 > 
 > If you're really interested, you can see one of my multiple (and pretty 
 > futile) attempts to get someone to intelligently disagree with me about the 
 > limits of the constitutional right to privacy in my August 15 post in the
 > ACLU message board thread page at this address: 
 > 
 > http://forums3.aclu.org/messageview.cfm?catid=106&threadid=7074&STARTPAGE=70
 > 
 > Or you can see me somewhat address whether "morality" is a legitimate state 
 > purpose for passing laws in part of my July 19 post at this address: 
 > 
 > http://forums3.aclu.org/messageview.cfm?catid=107&threadid=7139&STARTPAGE=111
 > 
 > If you do look over the ACLU message boards, let me know what you think...
 > 
 > Allen