But they've always been around, and the rules have never been too strictly enforced. Whether in New York City or a small town in the mid-west I don't think anyone has ever had to look too hard to find a hooker.
I never said that any choice made with free-will is honkey-dorey, but if you're not hurting anyone else or his property, I don't care what you do.
And Congress has no authority to enforce any law outside of its jurisdiction. That's why "Laci and Connor's Law" is so ridiculous. Killing a pregnant women carries an extra penalty for the fetus. Fine. But only on federal property. So Mr. Santorum and his pals can restrict abortion, but only on federal property.
The Senate does not have the authority or ability to enforce God's Law.
You cannot identify conservative thought until you are able to separate your own personal values system from that of a moral society's. It may not matter to you if people aren't physically harming others or the property of others, but it mattered a great deal to the Founders and it matters to conservatives what KIND of people make up a society.
Crack being sold in pharmacies and prostitutes soliciting outside of schools (neither of which cause physical harm or harm property) harm SOCIETY itself. Once society starts declaring that sodomy is a RIGHT, it has strayed off a moral course and is headed towards destruction.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Quincy Adams
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. These wants should be provided for, [including] the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions." Edmund Burke, father of conservatism