He looks at Louis, then starts to leave, then stops. He looks at his hand, which he’s hurt in the fight there’s blood on it. (Joe stands still, not knowing what to do. I just want to lie here and bleed for a while. Before I really lose my temper and hurt you back. I’m sorry, Louis, I never hit anyone before, I. (Laughing) It was like a sex scene in an Ayn Rand novel, huh? LOUIS: But it’d really be for those decisions.
They’d think I put you in jail for beating me up. JOE: I never did that before, I never hit anyone before, I. Louis drops to the floor, clutching his eye.
Louis pulls himself up, using Joe’s leg and jacket, as Joe struggles to free himself.) Again Joe tries to leave, but Louis grabs his leg and won’t let go. LOUIS: Stupid closeted bigots, you probably never figured out that each other was. (Joe starts again for the door, but Louis grabs him. Louis stumbles as Joe starts for the door.) LOUIS: You lied to me, you love me, well fuck you, you cheap piece of. LOUIS: Did you fuck him, did he pay you to let him. (Joe tries to push Louis aside Louis pushes back, forcefully.) JOE: Don’t worry about that, just get out of the. LOUIS: How often has the latex-sheathed cock I put in my mouth been previously in the mouth of the most evil, twisted, vicious bastard ever to snort coke at Studio 54, because lips that kissed those lips will never kiss mine. What I want to know is, did you fuck him? LOUIS: Joseph Welch! The Army/McCarthy hearings!Īsk Roy. JOE: I DON’T KNOW WHO SAID IT! Why are you doing this to me?! I love you! Please believe me, please, I love you. LOUIS: “Have you no decency, at long last, sir, have you no decency at all?” JOE (Very angry, threatening): Out of my way, Louis. LOUIS: It’s only the greatest punchline in American history. LOUIS: You moron, how can you not know that? LOUIS: So who said, “Have you no decency?” JOE: It’s law not justice, it’s power, not the merits of its exercise, it’s not an expression of the ideal, it’s.
This is an important bit of legal fag-bashing, isn’t it? They trusted you to do it. They gave this opinion to Wilson to write, which since they know he’s a vegetable incapable of writing do-re-mi, was quite the vote of confidence in his industrious little sidekick. (He goes right up to Joe speaking softly) You did. JOE: Not, not insofar as precedence determines the-which is how law works, as opposed to-The definition of a suspect class, which you probably’ve never. Because homosexuals, they write, are not entitled to equal protection under the law. Not because it’s unconstitutional to discriminate against homosexuals. Right? They gave it to him on a technicality: the army knew Stephens was gay when he enlisted. They didn’t change the decision, they just changed the reason for the decision. Coffee, I can’t be expected to know these things. JOE: And they found for the guy again, they. I can just imagine how that momentary lapse into you know sanity was received! So then all the judges on the Second Circuit were hastily assembled, and. LOUIS: The first judges gave him his pension back, yes, because: they ruled that gay men are members of a legitimate minority, entitled to the special protection of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Now as I understand it, this Stephens had told the army he was gay when he enlisted, but when he got ready to retire they booted him out. LOUIS: The army guy who got a dishonorable discharge-for being gay. Louis dodges, at the same time locating the case he’s been looking for.) JOE (Continuous from above): -but it’s unbelievable to me how total ignorance is no impediment for you in forming half-baked uninformed snap judgments masquerading as adult opinions, you, you. (Under his breath while flipping through the cases) Have you no decency, have you no. LOUIS (Continuous from above): That’s like fucking creative, or something. JOE: It’s not your fault that you have no idea what you’re talking about- (Continue below:) LOUIS: Because the Air and Water Protection Act doesn’t protect people, but actually only air and water. JOE: My opinions are being criticized by the guy who changes the coffee filters in the secretaries’ lounge! LOUIS (Continuous from above): -How you concluded that these women had no right to sue under the Air and Water Protection Act because. LOUIS: It’s sort of brilliant, in a satanic sort of way, how you conclude- (Continue below:)