Jun. 26th, 2003

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Jun. 26th, 2003 09:28 am
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Michael "Savage" Weiner and Ann Coulter were wed on June 26, 2042. The groom will keep at least one of his names, to be determined.

Dr. Weiner, a former talkshow host and nutrition expert, currently gives seminars on immigration matters at the third stool from the end of the bar at the Days End tavern located in the Tampa Days Inn. He and Miss Coulter met when she won the tavern's arm wrestling championship, going on to win a disputed senior trophy in the Coors Florida Tavern League competition when she finished her final bout by gutshooting her opponent.

The couple will reside in the Morton Downey Jr. suite of the George Wallace Home for Superannuated Adventitious Reactionaries.

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The Supreme Court struck down a Texas ban on gay sex Thursday, ruling that the law was an unconstitutional violation of privacy.

The justices voted 6-3 in striking down the Texas law, saying it violated due process guarantees.

"It's an historic day for gay Americans," said Ruth Harlow of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay-rights group representing the two Texas men. "I think Americans will be celebratory about this decision."

The majority opinion, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, appears to cover similar laws in 12 other states and reverses a 1986 high court ruling upholding sodomy laws. Kennedy wrote that homosexuals have "the full right to engage in private conduct without government intervention."

"The state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime," Kennedy wrote, according to a report from The Associated Press.

Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer agreed with Kennedy in full. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor agreed with the outcome of the case but not all of Kennedy's rationale.

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented.

"The court has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda," Scalia wrote for the three, according to the AP. He took the unusual step of reading his dissent from the bench.

"The court has taken sides in the culture war," Scalia said, adding that he has "nothing against homosexuals."



O'Connor apparently held out for an equal protection argument.
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First black judge on Missouri high court poised to become chief justice

Watching news about landmark civil rights laws on his family's black and white television one day in the 1960s, young Ronnie White asked his father what the legislation meant.

"He said, `It means that you can have a better life than I did,' " White said Wednesday as he prepared to become the first black chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court. "I didn't clearly understand it then, but I understand it today."

With that, a small tear slid from White's eye.

"It's not a big deal that Ronnie White is the chief," White told reporters. "It means a person of color can become chief. It means everybody in our state now will have that opportunity."

White, 50, became the first black judge on the court in 1995. He will take over as chief justice Tuesday, a position that rotates based on seniority.
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Guess he isn't ever going to hurt anyone again.

Boy, what with Lester Maddox going, bet Jesse's getting kinda jumpy about now.

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