6/26/2003

And A Small Dance For Mankind



My God, the Supreme Court killed Strom. Or, is it safe to say, sodomy killed Strom. Who ever thought we'd see these two headlines on the same page, and two days before the largest Gay Pride parade ever?

Supreme Court Overturns Sodomy Laws

The court "has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda," Scalia wrote for the three dissenters. 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."

Strom Thurmond Dead at 100

"We cannot and I shall not give up on our mission to right the 40-year wrongs of liberalism,"

"I want to tell you," he declared in one speech in 1948, "that there's not enough troops in the Army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches."

Senator Strom Thurmond, avowed heterosexual to the end. John Lawrence and Tryone Garner, just happy. In the south.