OK, I know I pooh-poohed mainstream gay politics a couple of weeks ago for confusing the stakes between material and symbolic fights. Now I’m riveted by the drama of the Supreme Court’s sodomy law hearing. The American Prospect has a thorough run-down:
Rehnquist then asked whether Smith was saying that a state couldn’t pass a law preferring heterosexuals to homosexuals as kindergarten teachers. Exactly, chimed in Scalia: That law’s justification would be that, without it, children might be induced to become homosexuals. As Scalia’s words slipped out, courtroom listeners actually gasped.
It goes on like this, and other accounts I’ve read paint a similar picture. Great stuff. Let’s hope this goes well.
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