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States' Liberty Party E-BookMorality & the ConstitutionIntroductionThis book began as a series of message board postings on Findlaw.com in a discussion over the then current Supreme Court decision Lawrence v. Texas, which had just overturned the laws prohibiting sodomy in the United States. I encountered a determined adversary and we bounced our contrary thoughts back and forth for a while and she suggested that I write a book. Yi Ling was an exceptionally pleasant forum contributor, even while our ideas clashed, us exchanging insults, she calling me “narrow-minded” and I accusing her of peppering the threads with fallacies and ad hominems. The subject was the Court’s Lawrence decision, but quickly turned to morality and the rightness or wrongness of homosexuality, becoming so lengthy that forum managers began stripping out large blocks of our slightly off-topic forum messages, allowing just those to remain that had something to do with the law, and of these there were ample enough. I have dedicated this book to Yi Ling, without whom it would not have been written at this time, and in this way, and perhaps not at all. Out of our discussion came new angles and examples, such as my Herculean exaggeration where strong physical men with a lower mental capacity are discriminated against by the better learned who have seized total control over the legal and societal system. Yi Ling’s parting words to me, upon my questioning whether I could write this book were these: “I have no doubt that you have already accomplished your task. You have covered many areas with many posters here from several angles. If you just take those threads of discussion, you have 90% of your E book. I think you know your topic well. There are historical periods to cover, there's Constitutional law, and several parallel ideas trains, including States' rights, religious prohibition in schools, and the moral values. It’s only a monumental task, because it is your existential quest to write this piece of work. It is in your blood, beneath your skin, in your flesh, in your bone, to write this work. Writing this piece is an important purpose of your life and to your life and probably meaningful for many others too. Please send me a copy of your E book.”
R. L. Bacci, August 10,2003 |
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