March 10, 2004
Andrew Sullivan publishes an interesting take on how the Federal Marriage Amendment might affect the implicit constitutional right to privacy. The post is a couple weeks old, but the important insight was new to me: the FMA, by proscribing certain kinds of private behavior, might make the constitution as a whole a more explicit on privacy, thereby endangering those rights achieved through precedent. It's good to remember how precarious some of these things are...
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