{"id":4172,"date":"2008-02-19T01:53:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T09:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/19\/arguments-are-won-or-lost-in-how-theyre-framed-seven-dildo-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T01:53:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T09:12:53","slug":"arguments-are-won-or-lost-in-how-theyre-framed-seven-dildo-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4172","title":{"rendered":"Arguments are Won or Lost In How They're Framed (Seven Dildo Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Texas Supreme Court’s<\/strike> 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision regarding a Texas law which banned owning more than six sex toys:<\/p>\n

“To determine the constitutional standard applicable to this claim, we must address what right is at stake. Plaintiffs claim that the right at stake is the individual\u2019s substantive due process right to engage in private intimate conduct free from government intrusion. The State proposes a different right for the Plaintiffs: “the right to stimulate one\u2019s genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hilzoy <\/a>points out that these sort of arguments about how to frame Constitutional questions come up all the time:<\/p>\n

The Constitution does not mention Mormon Temple Garments, for instance, and it certainly does not explicitly grant a right to wear any particular style of underwear. But it does grant the right to freedom of religion, and absent some compelling state interest in regulating underwear, this means that Mormons have the right to wear their Temple Garments, however ludicrous questions like “do you mean to say that the right to wear a particular sort of underwear is guaranteed in the Constitution?” might sound. […]<\/p>\n

I mention this only because I’m tired of hearing arguments of the form: The Constitution does not mention X, so how can there be a constitutional right to X? (For X equal to: abortion, medicinal marijuana, etc., etc., etc.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Court didn’t buy the state’s framing, by the way, so any Texas readers should feel free to buy any number of sex toys today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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