Obviously I don't view this decision in the same light you do...I don't see it as part of a cause. But I do see this...if the government can come in and tell you who you can or can not sleep with...and what sexual acts you can act out with your partners...then they can do the same with me and my wife. No thanks. The Supreme Court has affirmed time and time again that a home is a man's castle...the 4th Amendment is futher support for that. Everyone should be afforded that dignity in a free society.
MM, The other day I read George Will argue that this ruling will eventually force states to legalize things like prostitution and lap-dancing. What do you think?
here's the article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37927-2003Jun26.html ... The privacy right is most famously associated with Roe v. Wade, the 1973 abortion decision. But the radicalism of that decision was in severing the privacy right from any relationship with any social institution. Rather, the court said in 1973 that the privacy right encompasses the individual's right of choice. In sexual conduct, the right to choose is the right to consensual activity. ... Today laws criminalizing homosexual sodomy are rare and rarely enforced. They should be repealed. In most states they have been, by democratic persuasion. But "unconstitutional" is not a synonym for "unjust" or "unwise," and the Constitution is not a scythe that judges are free to wield to cut down all laws they would vote to repeal as legislators. Legislators can adjust laws to their communities' changing moral sensibilities without creating, as courts do, principles, such as the broadly sweeping privacy right, that sweep away more than communities intend to discard. The question is not whether states are wise to criminalize this or that sex act outside of marriage. Rather, the question is: Once the court has said that some such acts are constitutional rights, by what principle are any of the myriad possible permutations of consensual adult sexual activities denied the same standing? ...
