Check out Dahlia
Lithwick's report in Slate on last week's sodomy law hearing
before the Supreme Court. Here's a chilling exchange, given that
the court's role is to protect fundamental liberties:
[Attorney Paul Smith, representing the gay couple convicted under Texas law] explains that the anti-sodomy laws have pernicious secondary effects (keeping gay parents from gaining child visitation or custody or employment, for instance) and Rehnquist wonders whether, if these laws are stuck down, states can have laws "preferring non-homosexuals to homosexuals as kindergarten teachers." Smith replies that there would need to be some showing that gay kindergarten teachers produce harm to children. Scalia offers one: "Only that children might be induced to follow the path to homosexuality."
Scary, indeed.