Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson show across the nation.

I'm going to take a phone call here from Clay here in just a minute. And then I'm going to start talking.

I gave basically the rest of the show today over to callers. And I got some stuff I do want to say and do want to talk about.

At 3 p.m. Eastern time, I will be on

W.S.B. Radio locally with callers in the Metro Atlanta area taking your phone calls then.

So if you're in the area, you can call in three to four as well. I'll be there with you.

Right now, though, 87799-7-3-7-4-25 is this full number. And I want to go,

before I move on to anything else, I want to go to Clay. Clay, thank you very much for being

patient with me.

Kirk, how's it going? Good.

Good. I got two questions. So you mentioned the penumbra. Can you kind of elaborate on that? You know, what other guarantees today has that been used in other court cases, you know, maybe overfell Griswold? Do you see, how do you see conservative and, you know, moving forward? Do you think, you know, they're going to leave that as a state issue, or do you think we're going to push for a federal ban?

You know, is there going to be a real push on gay marriage, et cetera?

You know, how does that, you know, work forward?

No, I don't think so.

That's such a great question. There's actually Alito in his final opinion. and by the way, this was not in the initial draft,

but it was in the final opinion,

says that this specific decision applies to abortion.

It doesn't... initial draft, but it was in the final opinion, says that this specific decision applies to

abortion. It doesn't apply to those others. And for example, let's take marriage in Obergefeld,

gay marriage. What Alito says and what is echoed by Brett Kavanaugh and his concurrence is that there's always been a marriage right

in the penumbra. We know marriage wasn't in the Constitution, but it's clearly it was a right

that existed before the Constitution. It's not like George Washington and his wife had to

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