Tuesday, June 26, 2007

This Day in American History


Poking each other in the butt is now protected by the Constitution!

On June 26th, 2003, the US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 vote that two men that were caught in the act of sodomy after a Sheriffs Deputy had barged in for a weapons disturbance call. They were arrested under Texas state law for the act of sodomy, pleaded no contest, then appealed to the Texas supreme court calling the law unconstitutional because it only bans homosexual sodomy, not heterosexual . A medical technologist John Geddes Lawrence, then 60, and street-stand barbecue vendor Tyron Garner, then 36, took the case all the way up to the supreme court and won.

The case was a slam dunk, and all the non-asshole justices voted for it, including the justice that loooves it in the ass, Sandra Day O'Connor. "As long as they use lube and condoms, people should be able to do whatever they want in their own estate, I mean, apartment." Justice Stephen Breyer said in his opinion. The three men with the largest assholes, ironically, voted against the challenge. Clarence Thomas even called it silly, but not against the constitution, and Antonin Scalia said "If we make it legal, then it's not fun anymore! Don't you guys get it?"

Oh yes, some of us do get it.... Eww! That was gross.

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