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NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 26, 2003

CONTACT:  Diane Gramley  1.814.271.9078 or 1.814.437.5355

  SEXUAL PERVERSION OKAYED BY U.S. SUPREME COURT IN EFFORT TO FURTHER UNDERMINE AMERICAN TRADITIONAL VALUES

  (Harrisburg) -- Today's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court will further undermine already hurting American families, a traditional values group declared.  "Six extremist U.S. Supreme Court Justices have just thrown out states' rights to decide what is immoral sexual perversion.  They have rewritten the Constitution to include a right to privacy that does not exist and declared war on America's traditional families and values.  Homosexual activists will use this ruling to further their agenda," Diane Gramley, director of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania said.

  Gramley continued, "Our U.S. Senator, Rick Santorum, has endured weeks of attack simply for speaking the truth.  He knew, and AFA of Pennsylvania agrees with his statement, that the door will be swung wide open for laws against bigamy, prostitution and incest to be challenged if the Court overturned the Texas sodomy law.  Already many homosexual activists argue that sexual relations with minors under the age of 14 that are deemed "consensual and harmless" should be considered as a 'gay rights issue,' and should not be prosecuted under the law.  With today's decision, this could easily be considered a 'right to privacy."

  The majority of Americans do not agree that homosexual sex should be protected under a constitutional right to privacy. In 1986 the Bowers v. Hardwick decision upheld laws against sodomy.  Then Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote in his concurring opinion " in constitutional terms there is no such thing as a fundamental right to commit homosexual sodomy."  Today's decision also threw out Chief Justice Burger's statement.

  "What a difference seventeen years and changes in the make up of the Supreme Court makes.  This highlights the importance of not having activist justices appointed to the bench.  We need Supreme Court Justices who will uphold America's traditions and beliefs, who will defend traditional families and who will not view the Constitution as an ever changing document," stated Gramley.

  "Today the U.S. Supreme Court declared sexual perversion as being protected under the Constitution by declaring there is a right to privacy to protect private, adult consensual sexual activity.  Which are next to be struck down:  prostitution, bigamy, incest?  What further attack will the courts have on American's families and values?" Gramley asked.

  This ruling strikes down the sodomy laws in thirteen states:  Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Virginia.

 

 

 

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