TAXES - & Utopias Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: TAXES - & Utopias
# 7241 byxenophile2002@... on Nov. 23, 2005, 7:31 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
--- In spacesettlers, "terrierkeeper" wrote:
> She filed this with the court as Head of the ACLU Chapter in which
> she lived. And it ws in regards to the Age of Consent. Read it from
> a Newsmax article (One of those 'Right Wing Extremist' Net Pages).
>>> Actually, some Liberals like Ruth Bader Ginzburg want to lower it
>>> to Twelve. (Sick)
Again, it would help if you would stop top posting. It makes your
posts hard to read.
Now about RBG.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/15/104732.shtml tells me
that Schmidt told the Washington Post that RBG was in favor of this.
Schmidt provided nothing but his say-so on the matter.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200511220015 tells me that "November 21
edition of Christian Broadcasting Network's (CBN) The 700 Club, host
Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition, claimed that
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg "believed in" polygamy,
legalized prostitution, and lowering the age of consent to 12 years
old. Robertson's comments were an apparent reference to a 1974 report
that Ginsburg co-authored when she was general counsel for the
American Civil Liberties Union. But contrary to Robertson's
assertion, in the report, she did not express a personal belief on
any of the three issues. Rather, she stated only that it
is "arguable" that prostitution is protected under the Constitution
and that legislation restricting the rights of bigamists or "persons
cohabiting with more than one person" appeared to violate the
Constitution. She took no position regarding the age of consent."
Now I suppose that it possible that MediaMatters is lying, but they
do provide a link where you can read the thing, which is more than
Newsmax does. http://www.eppc.org/docLib/20050608_Ginsburg2.pdf
Actually, in all my searching, all I could find was a mix of
unsupported assertions of this, and assertions of this supported only
by people quoting those who have asserted it without anything to
support it. IOW, it did not happen. RBG never tried to lower the
AoC to twelve. This is an urban legend like celebrities doing weird
things with gerbils.
It did not happen.