"During oral argument in Roe, the entire courtroom laughed when the lawyer arguing for abortion law ticked off a string of constitutional provisions allegedly violated by Texas' abortion law – the due process clause, the equal protection clause, the Ninth Amendment 'and a variety of others.' According to the 'The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court' by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, the law clerks felt as if they were witnessing 'something embarrassing and dishonest' about the decision-making process in Roe, with the justices brokering trimesters and medical judgments like a group of legislators. Never has the phrase 'judge, jury and executioner' been more apt than with regard to this landmark ruling."

I was reading an advocate in the WSN for gay marriage that said he hadn't heard any arguments against gay marriage that weren't biblical (guess he hasn't heard any Catholic arguments yet). However, he was completely unable to forumlate an argument for his position. He couldn't construct an argument from his premises to his conclusion. It was all emotionalism. This is the future. 43 million down, many more to go.