Word: gay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well as to anyone else. There had, after all, been no children involved, no victim of any kind, no coercion, no public misbehavior. In such circumstances, doesn't a free citizen have a right to do as he pleases? One can sense a certain irritation over such a "gay rights" claim in the brusque rejection by Justice White. It is, said White, "at best, facetious...
Supporters of gay rights quite naturally criticize the court's decision, but there is a more fundamental point in Justice Blackmun's dissent. "A necessary corollary of giving individuals freedom to choose how to conduct their lives is acceptance of the fact that different individuals will make different choices," he wrote. "It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority." In this, Blackmun was echoing a famous argument by Holmes: "If there...
White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan predicts a new, more vigorous incarnation for social conservatives. "The right-to-life movement is as strong or stronger than ever. The number of gay-rights marchers at various demonstrations has been a fraction of their old strength. The Christians are taking over the Republican Party in Missouri, Washington and Michigan...
...regularity of its limbs and parts is strict, but as with all the best Wiener Werkstatte work, severity is not carried too far. Six wood spheres, billiard ball-size, tucked under each arm and atop each leg, are a perfect ornamental gesture, precise and machined but irrational and gay...
...gay leaders fear that the decision will nonetheless be a devastating blow to the efforts of homosexuals to win social toleration. They have been on the defensive anyway against a public backlash spurred partly by terror over the spread of AIDS. Homophobes "want us to go back into the closet," says Jean O'Leary, executive director of National Gay Rights Advocates. "Now the Supreme Court has even made the closet unsafe...