I protest.

A little good news for civil rights.

I'm very happy to see from the BBC this story: US court overturns gay sex ban. The Supreme Court overturned a Texas law criminalizing sex between consenting homosexual adults. CNN has the story as well, and goes into a little more detail. Unsurprisingly, the three dissenting opinions were those of Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas, the three ultraconservative partisans on the Court.

Jeralyn Merritt at TalkLeft covers this as well, among other rulings, and far better than I ever could, in her "Open Thread for Supreme Court News."

This decision has dire implications for the twelve other states that have similar (if not identical) laws. It may also mean that Bush will be forced to comment on the matter, coming down on one side or another of the issue, and thereby alienating either his loony religious right supporters, or most of the rest of mainstream America. "A consummation devoutly to be wish'd."

Finally, according to CNN:

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

Liar.