This past week, the Georgia supreme court ruled 6-1 to strike down an anti-sodomy law that was over a century and a half old. This was a wonderful step forward for personal liberties. "We cannot think of any other activity that reasonable persons would rank as more private and more deserving of protection from governmental interference than consensual, private, adult sexual activity," the decision said. In other words, they were saying that the law itself served no real purpose other than to meddle into peoples' private business.
However... No good deed goes unpunished, right? Now we have a bunch of conservative Georgia lawmakers planning to push forward with a new anti-sodomy law. "To the extent that people's religious faith teaches that homosexuality is wrong, the state should support those beliefs," said Republican Georgia Senate Minority Leader, Eric Johnson.
It astounds me that people in government don't understand that our government was put together the way it was in order to protect the rights of the minority from the majority. Then there's that pesky little thing that I keep harping upon... the separation of church and state. Johnson is demanding that the government support a religious belief, as clear a violation of the first amendment as you could ever expect to see.
Some people just don't get it.
