Opinion | Kill the zombies! Undead laws can come back to bite you.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Indeed, it's hard to imagine anyone actually trying to bar an atheist from office -- or arrest someone for adultery in any of the 16 states with anti-adultery statutes.
50% : In 13 states, Obergefell v. Hodges is all that protects the right to same-sex marriage.
50% : "Anti-abortion extremists will continue to exploit any avenue they can find to get the national ban they champion," Smith wrote in the Times, "and I want to make sure my bill shuts down every one of those avenues."
46% : But in last month's Supreme Court hearing on FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, which seeks to limit access to the abortion drug mifepristone, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. called the Comstock Act "a prominent provision ... not some obscure subsection of a complicated obscure law."
41% : In his concurrence on Dobbs v. Jackson, Justice Clarence Thomas called for overruling the "demonstrably erroneous decisions" of Griswold v. Connecticut, Lawrence v. Texas and Obergefell v. Hodges -- the court cases that made contraception, homosexual sex, and same-sex marriage (respectively) legal all across the country, no matter what state laws said.

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