Contemplating the Laundry on "Trying to outrun Lawrence"

There is simply no principled escape from the logic of Lawrence...

Jordan's back! She finds this frightening confirmation of common sense from Jeff Jacoby in Townhall.com:

Allen and Pat were lovers, but a Wisconsin statute enacted in 1849 made their sexual relationship a felony. The law was sometimes used to nail predators who had molested children, but using it to prosecute consenting adults -- Allen was 45; Pat, 30 -- was virtually unheard of. That didn't deter Milwaukee County Judge David Hansher, however. Nor did the fact that the couple was genuinely in love and didn't understand why their relationship should be a crime. Allen and Pat didn't "have to be bright," the judge growled from the bench, to know that having sex with each other was wrong.

He threw the book at them: eight years for Allen, five for Pat, to be served in separate maximum-security prisons, 25 miles apart.

If this had happened to a gay couple, the case would have become a cause celebre. Hard time as punishment for a private, consensual, adult relationship? Activists would have been outraged. Editorial pages would have thundered. Politicians would have called for the prosecutor's and judge's heads.

But Allen and Patricia Muth are not gay. They were convicted of incest. Although they didn't meet until Patricia was 18 -- she had been raised from infancy in foster care -- they were brother and sister, children of the same biological parents. They were also strongly attracted to each other, emotionally and physically. And so, disregarding the taboo against incest, they became a couple and had four children.

Lawrence overturned a stupid law. The trouble is it overturned it on a principle that made even sound laws unconstitutional. Again, using the "privacy" and "consenting adults" principles, these sibling lovers should be free. That's the obscenity that SCOTUS has unleashed on our society. Our laws no longer defend common sense because they're founded on uncommon nonsense. Utopian paradises filled with Absolute Individualist Great-I-Ams seeking fulfillment in the One Thing that Matters are simply that--Utopias. And Utopian means nowhere!

Our Robed Masters have insisted upon interpreting our laws on the standards of Nowhere. Thus, Nothing has become against the law. Nothing actually has become the law. May God preserve us from our folly.