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So, we weren’t entirely surprised when Santorum managed to alienate at least 10 percent of the American population by equating their sexuality with criminal behavior. We aren’t even convinced that he was being mean-spirited or bigoted. He probably was just, once again, uninformed and, definitely confused.

I agree. Santorum should have clarified himself by letting us all know if he supports police being able to barge into people's bedrooms and arrest and jail them for homosexual or adulterous acts.

The Supreme Court isn't being asked to rule Texas' homosexual sodomy law unconstitutional on the basis of "privacy", they are being asked to rule it unconstitutional because the litigants claim it does not provide equal protection (although I do not find this to be the case as both men and women are permitted by law to engage in heterosexual sodomy). If only men or only women were permitted to engage in sodomy in Texas, then a case might be made for unequal protection.

Santorum should have clarified himself by letting us all know if he supports police being able to barge into people's bedrooms and arrest and jail them for homosexual or adulterous acts.

We've been over this months and months ago. The 2 men left their door unlocked. A third man who was a roommate a homosexual lover of one of the men made the call. In fact there was supposedly a police history of the men making false calls on each other (possibly other attempts at getting "caught" in the act?).

At any rate, a false armed assault call was placed to the police. The door was unlocked when the police arrived. They did not "barge in"; in an emergency situation they do not need a search warrant to enter your house. Would they need one if it was on fire?

The nature of the evidence observed by the police could be put into question although I doubt that they would be able to walk away without any charges if the 2 men had been smoking crack in the bedroom instead.

The 2 men continued having anal sex once the officers entered the apartment and they continued the act even once the officers entered the bedroom.

The 2 men were arrested (possibly because they were refusing to cease the act in the presence of the officers leading them to believe that the two men would continue to violate the law and resume the act after being ticketed). They were ticketed (I don't recall the fine, I think that the maximum is $200). The third man was sentenced to 30 days in jail for making the deliberate false report (although I think I read that he only served 15 days, it could have been faulty reporting though). That third man is now dead after an assault leaving a friend's place (according to an HPD report I found online recently that was dated 2000).