Time to chime in on the new SCOTUS decision! On the web, it looks like only the bloggers are doing any real work. I had to laugh at this bit from CNN though:

Robert Knight, a spokesman for the conservative Culture and Family Institute, said Thursday's ruling would have "very real consequences."
Knight warned that it would undermine the legal foundation of marriage, lead to more deaths among gay men from sexually transmitted diseases and lead to schoolchildren being taught "that homosexual sodomy is the same as marital sex."
"This is social engineering by a court. It will have very bad effects on the idea of our republican form of government," Knight said. "If a government like Texas cannot legislate on public health, safety and morals, what can it legislate about?"

The last bit is the best. It sounds like the government of Texas might just as well flee to Oklahoma or something, doesn't it? And if the state can't tell you what to do with your tallywhacker, what GOOD is it?

The Wall Street Journal, usually a good source for opinions, came out with a lame-ass editorial (unsigned, of course) that refuses to recognize that people have the RIGHT TO PRIVACY. They do. Got that? I get really pissed when I read "it's not in the Constitution". Bite me. And go back and read it again. Just because it's not enumerated doesn't mean the right doesn't exist. I always wonder, when I read an attack on the right to privacy, what do people who hate privacy so much really want? Then I figure it's some kind of hideous Orwellian future and leave it at that.

Andrew Sullivan has a bit on Scalia's dissent, which is interesting. Here's a quote ripped from context: (from Scalia's dissent, Findlaw)

"Finally, I turn to petitioners' equal-protection challenge, which no Member of the Court save Justice O'Connor, ante, at 1 (opinion concurring in judgment), embraces: On its face §21.06(a) applies equally to all persons. Men and women, heterosexuals and homosexuals, are all subject to its prohibition of deviate sexual intercourse with someone of the same sex."

In other words, the Texas law didn't unfairly discriminate against gay people because it's illegal for two straight guys or two straight women to have sex too!