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Originally Posted by goaliemn
I won't give it up. Many states amended their constitution to ban gay marriage in the last 3-5 years. There are still people who will push the issue to that point on the federal level. Heck, the DOMA act was passed in 1996 at the federal level, which basically made it illegal for the federal government to recognize any marriage, other than that of a man and a woman.
if you're saying the victims 8th amendment rights were violated, they were not. The government didn't inflict the act. A private person did and the constitution only applies to the government and its actions.
I don't know how a court would rule on some of the punishments talked about on here. I know, in the past, some states have thought about using inmates as medical guinea pigs and it always has been shot down by the courts. They can't say one punishment is cruel and unusual for one class of criminal, but ok for another. That could be a 14th amendment violation. Of course IANAL.
Part of me likes the exile idea. Find an island out aways, drop off food and supplies every now and then, and they rule themselves. They have proven they can't live in society, and we would provide the basics for survival. They would have their own society and pecking order to deal with.
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I'm not opposed to your solution. In so much as medical experiments, make it voluntary. They get to choose to give something back to this world, or either Survivor Island or a 9mm slug to the brain stem.
I figure the ultra liberals would claim that survivor island would be deemed cruel and unusual.
Oh and I wasn't saying that a victim's 8th Amendment rights are violated, rather that the violator should be subject to just about any punishment imaginable that is deemed fit.
The gay marriage laws are again, a red herring. I disagree with them, but you still have the option to go to places where they don't have them or don't enforce them.