Flummoxed is the word, when I read Antonin Scalia asking: "What about rape laws that only apply to male-female rape? Do you think they're unconstitutional?" This is part of what the Washington Post calls "a lively discussion of state sodomy laws" at the Supreme Court yesterday.

Turning aside the outrage that lawmakers are even discussing this seriously, I believe it's worth pointing out that the actual crime of the Sodomites, as described in chapter 19 of Genesis, was not homosexuality per se, but threatening Lot's guests with homosexual gang rape. Big difference. That Lot's guests just happened to be angels of God (not that they could have known that) does not really help their case, although Lot himself doesn't get off too well, either, considering he offered his own virgin daughters to the mob instead.

Vladan, the Czech version of "Bring them out, so that we might know them" is here. Vyveï nám je, abychom je poznali!