Comments on Who Said That?

Sweet.

ROFLMAO

Too bad it wasn't an arrest for cruising a gay bathouse. i suppose the demographics don't support all Republicans being gay

"...there is no protected right to engage in extrasexual - extramarital sexual relations, again, that can trace their roots to history or the traditions of this nation."

It may not be a protected right, but I can link extramarital sexual relations to married Federal Papers co-author Alexander Hamilton and Maria Reynolds. Not only that, but he paid off her husband with a job at the Treasury Department so he could keep banging her. Can't get too much more rooted in history than $10 Alexander.

@3: I think that's why I was so doubtful about the impact of the NYT McCain article . . . it hinted at a hetero affair.

Ugh. Jail time would be nice.

So a lawyer advocated for a position in court that runs contrary to his own ethical conduct in private life? Wow. I'll bet that hardly ever happens.

@7 seems like it was his probably personal political position as well

@8 flip "his" and "personal"

Oh but its SO MUCH MORE FUN when it's "nasty, dirty" and against the law...

Puritan Victorian Bliss.

Is there no obligation, when arguing before the Supreme Court, to speak in comprehensible English? That's gibberish what he said there.

...a cartoon depicting an African-American suffering from a “fatal overdose” of watermelon and fried chicken

I would very much like to see how the artist chose to depict such a complex set of circumstances. Can anybody dig up the cartoon in question?

@8 then flip "personal" and "probably his." :)

@4: I thought the two blackmailed him to keep the story quiet. Then, when there were rumblings about corruption, he exposed the sex scandal and extortion to prove that he was a philanderer rather than a crook.

Hmm, this might be the image in question, though it's a photograph, not a cartoon. Somehow I doubt that it's completely un-posed.

http://rev-ree.blogspot.com/2006/08/fatal-overdose-in-downtown-detroit.html

I love how people make the argument that if something can't be traced directly back to the "history or traditions" of the US, suddenly it must be some horrible thing that can never have. I can't fucking trace anything about air travel or its applicable laws back to the founding of our country, but does that mean that no laws or regulation should have been passed when the airplane was invented?

Beyond that, what the fuck is wrong with people anyway?! People REALLY think it's ok to throw people in jail for their sexual activities? God I hope this man roasts in the firey pits of hell, but not until he's had his ass slammed a few thousand times in prison. Just think how much time all that gay sex should add to his sentence...

Those who preach against the sins of the world are usually the greatest sinners - both in the past and in the future.

For they think we are like them, yet don't realize that they're the problem, not us.

Looks like i am now completely unqualified to speak before the supreme court

@18 - that's ok, Hils will let you speak. She's pretty good about that.

Here's to hoping he drops the soap.

a nudge to Ugh and Todd - sexual abuse in prison is a very real problem and a human rights violation that is considered to be torture by both US and international courts. Each year, thousands of men, women, and youth are hurt terribly when they are in the custody of our government agencies. And, LGBTQ prisoners are the group at the greatest risk for sexual assault.

Maybe we can heap crap on this nasty bigot without heaping that kind of crap.

Not that the guy isn't a hypocritical douche, but I believe the city of Houston was legally obligated to argue in support of the law before the court. The District Attorney's job isn't to decide which laws should be enforced--it's to enforce all of them. Then again, they probably just thought Lawrence would pay the fine and this case would never go as far as it did.