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Moreover, White seems to forget that sodomy laws forbid oral and anal sex between heterosexual couples as well as homosexual ones. In a dissenting opinion, Associate Justice Harry Blackmun scolds White for an "almost obsessive focus on homosexual activity." Of course, this obsession is no small coincidence. There is little chance that a case of heterosexual sodomy would ever make its way to the courts since Americans do not disapprove of sodomy between heterosexuals. We can therefore rest assured that only homosexuals will have their bedrooms raided by local police...
...regulations forbid labeling that "represents, suggests or implies that the food ... is adequate or effective in the prevention, cure, mitigation or treatment of any disease or symptom...
...against smoking on public transportation and in public places, including schools, hospitals, auditoriums, theaters and government buildings. Two weeks ago, New York City Mayor Ed Koch (who quit smoking in 1952) proposed what he termed the most stringent antismoking regulations in the nation. If enacted, Koch's law would forbid smoking in enclosed public spaces, such as taxis, stores and rest rooms (there goes that refuge...
...council meetings, God forbid. Sunday night, at the council's most important meeting of the term, the council was forced to conduct not one, but two quorum calls. The first time, less than half of the council was present, so the council called a recess, and a handful of council members scurried frantically to the freshman dorms and to the telephones to try to round up enough of your exhausted representatives so that the council might conduct official business...
Several gay activists claim that policies like the one adopted by Cambridge are discriminatory, creating a special category for employees with AIDS and a panel to review their right to work. The guidelines, they say, violate city and state civil rights laws which forbid discrimination on the basis of handicap...