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This was posted on Above the Law and a Law.com reprint of a Texas Lawyer article - not exactly rumors.

This was posted on Above the Law and a Law.com reprint of a Texas Lawyer article - not exactly rumors.

This was posted on Above the Law and a Law.com reprint of a Texas Lawyer article - not exactly rumors.

This was posted on Above the Law and a Law.com reprint of a Texas Lawyer article - not exactly rumors.

My favorite was the idea that the gay community was somehow in on the case and set it up specifically to get the law overturned.

If they did, why would they choose two people who had pretty substantial criminal records…surely that’s not the best they could do? (Not that it lessens the now-legality of what they did then, but it affected the perception.)

Of course, when Tyron Garner died at 39 there was also lots of concern-trolling about OMG TEH GHEY KILLS YOO!!!111!! NOT THAT WE MIND!!11!!!

I loved when Eric Berndt, the openly gay NYU student, responded to the case by asking Scalia to his face if he sodomized his wife.

I guess I see what you mean with the smoker argument. It sort of elides the point though.

I think the reason that people are vehement about this fellow’s hypocrisy is that the apparatus of state power was used to prosecute someone else’s (adult, consensual) sex life, and D.A. Rosenthal participated with gusto. While he used the state’s equipment (heh) to indulge, himself, in some seriously unsavory behavior.

That is really the point of liberals’ disgust with these newfangled conservatives - that they wish to use the state to harass others while also using their positions to insulate themselves from any criticism whatsoever.

And honestly two men having sex in their own damn home is a lot more respectable than any one of the things we now know about Rosenthal, no?

‘Speshly Eric. Let’s see the Party of Moral Values lead by example. In case you were too busy listening to Rush and Fox Noise, we’ve had a decade of “Do as we say not as we do.”

Exhibit A: Newt Gingrich carrying on an extramarital affair while decrying the stain on a dress.

Exhibit B: GOP hand wringing over the folly of “nation building” trying to head off more genocide in the Kosovo in the 90s. Fast-forward to 2008 wherein we’ve blown the $#!+ out of two nations and *still* can’t seem to stop their inhabitants from killing each other, despite hundreds of billions of dollars, thousands of dead and tens of thousands of casualties.

Exhibit C: The incessant moaning about the fiscal irresponsibility of “tax and spend” while authorizing billions for a cooked-up war and slashing taxes for the upper 1%.

Exhibit D: Hand-wringing over intrusive government while systematically dismantling the Bill of Rights and handing nearly unprecedented power to the Executive Branch.

Exhibit E: “Supporting the troops” by under-equipping and over-extending them.

Need I go on? If you want to compare the pecadillos of the left and right, I think that the right’s fuck-ups have cost this nation far, far more dearly than somebody getting an extramarital blowjob in the Oval Office. But then, you’re probably one of those people who think that intelligent design should be taught side by side with real science in the schools, because all “theories” are equal, right?

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(A) does not keep sex squarely and exclusively within his own marriage, but also (and here’s the screamingly hypocritical part)

(B) actively advocates and litigates for policies stating that EXACTLY EVERYONE should be barred by law from being able to do exactly WHAT HE DID DO (ref. above, not keeping sex within marriage).

He is BY DEFINITION a HYPOCRITE.

And a prick. [This is a both/and blog, BTW.]