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...policy. California's three-strikes law, for instance, didn't emerge from a reasoned debate over the wisdom of condemning three-time offenders to life in prison but from the impassioned pleas of a father whose daughter, Kimber Reynolds, was murdered by career criminals. Megan's Law (requiring released sex-offenders to publicly disclose their offense), Katie's Law (providing money to track sex offenders) and a host of similar measures share the provenance of narrow, private experience. Some of these laws may make sense, but most have unfortunate side effects, like causing the occasional injustice (do we really want...
...Justice Barbara A. Madsen, writing for a plurality of the court's 5-4 majority, said the Washington state legislature "was entitled to believe that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples furthers procreation, essential to survival of the human race, and furthers the well-being of children by encouraging families where children are reared in homes headed by the children's biological parents...
...arguments by gay-rights activists that Washington's 1998 "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA) - which limited marriage to one man and one woman and was passed despite the objections of the state's Democratic governor - violated the state constitution's requirements to treat all citizens equally. "DOMA treats both sexes the same," Madsen wrote. "Neither a man nor a woman may marry a person of the same sex...
...help stop online predators from finding ways to meet and prey on children. So his rival, Patrick Murphy, has now put out his own plan for "online protection," in which he proposes to ban access to sites like myspace for people convicted of using a computer to commit a sex crime...
...Indemnity) that still play well today. Spillane, who outsold them all, and I mean all together, should have got some sharp films made from his work, through his power or the law of averages. But the very elements that made him a hot property on the paperback market - the sex and violence - made him too hot for '50s Hollywood. If the studio bosses didn't exactly blacklist Spillane, they didn't rush to film his books...