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Jonathan Cohn, Rachel Brand’s Husband

In 2003, Cohn reacted to the Supreme Court’s landmark Lawrence v. Texas decision with a National Review op-ed called “The Death of Morality.” That famous decision stuck down Texas’ sodomy law and the 13 other state laws that still existed. The justices voted 6-3, making consensual same-sex activity legal in all 50 states and every U.S. territory. Thomas was among the dissenting judges.

In his National Review essay, Cohn argued that the U.S. Constitution and the 14th Amendment “did not establish a sodomy right.” Cohn suggested that the justices were second guessing American democracy. He wrote:

The bell thus tolls, not for morality, but for government by the people, an outcome that is neither “liberal” nor “conservative.” Judicial fiat can be — and has been — used to serve the goals of both sides of the ideological spectrum. At the beginning of the last century, for example, the Supreme Court invalidated worker-welfare laws to benefit industry. The constitutional provision ostensibly relied on to reach that conclusion, the Due Process clause, is precisely the one used by today’s Court to create a right to gay sex. And the next invocation of “Due Process” (depending on what alleged rights become acceptable to the legal elites in future years) may very well be equally “conservative” — perhaps at the expense of environmental programs or other social-welfare legislation. Alternatively, “Due Process” could be used for ends that are neither liberal nor conservative, but just plain-old wrong. For example, in Dred Scott, the decision that sparked the Civil War, the Supreme Court imposed its view of morality in finding a constitutional right to own slaves as property, immune from federal government interference.

Cohn did not contribute another essay to the National Review. However, he has made his political views known through donations. According to Open Secrets, he donated $500 to the Republican National Committee in 2004. He also donated $1,500 to Bush’s 2004 campaign. In 2014, he donated $500 to Republican Ed Gillespie‘s senate campaign in Virginia.

In 1999, he donated $5,000 to Elizabeth Dole, whose Presidential campaign Brand worked on.

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