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2019-02-11 Home Front: Culture Wars

Justice Anthony Kennedy Says Loss of Decency Is A Threat To Democracy

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-11 05:18|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The importance of civil, wide-ranging discourse

With Lefties and Muslims? Might as well try to reason with a charging doberman. A stick, on the other hand ...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-11 05:52|| 2019-02-11 05:52|| Front Page Top

#2 That horse done left the barn in the 1990s.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-02-11 06:02|| 2019-02-11 06:02|| Front Page Top

#3 When everybody is Lenny Bruce the uniqueness is no longer there. Life just becomes corse. You don't know what you got till it's gone. Look in the mirror Mr Justice, how many laws and ordenences did you all strike down to bring us this corseness.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2019-02-11 06:08|| 2019-02-11 06:08|| Front Page Top

#4 If society cannot agree on protecting children from murder then pretty much all other behaviors appear justified.

Posted by Airandee 2019-02-11 06:13|| 2019-02-11 06:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, if the stick is applied with a loving heart...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-11 06:14|| 2019-02-11 06:14|| Front Page Top

#6 he emphasized that religious dissenters may engage in "an open and searching debate" over the nature of marriage.

Or they could simply default to common sense or a millennia of human tradition.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-11 09:21|| 2019-02-11 09:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Free and open civic debate is not the same as decency. Given a choice, I'd opt for free and open civic debate.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-02-11 09:21|| 2019-02-11 09:21|| Front Page Top

#8 And that is why your kin have no decency. They ain't interested in keeping this a democracy.

And you can rot in hell, Kennedy.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-02-11 09:49|| 2019-02-11 09:49|| Front Page Top

#9 A retired Supreme Court Justice? You mean they don't have to die in office? Does RBG know about this?

Posted by Bobby 2019-02-11 10:00|| 2019-02-11 10:00|| Front Page Top

#10 When they start dueling like they did in the old days I'll start to take the loss of decency bit seriously. Until then folks complaining about this are just old prunes pretending to be shocked.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-02-11 14:39|| 2019-02-11 14:39|| Front Page Top

#11 It might be better to ask Where is the federal requirement to oversea marriage?

I thought they were getting government out of bedrooms?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-02-11 15:09|| 2019-02-11 15:09|| Front Page Top

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