To: Paul C. Jesup
even the conservative state supreme court of Georgia said that government should stay out of the bedrooms of consenting adult.
Good for Georgia, but it's not the job of the U.S. Supreme Court to decide what the government should or should not be able to do based on some vague concept of "staying out of the bedroom."
It's the job of the U.S. Supreme Court to enforce the Constitution. As Byron White, Scalia et al. have pointed out, it's absurd to believe that the U.S. Constitution was intended to require states to allow sodomy when sodomy was in fact clearly prohibited in the various states when the Constitution and its various amendments were adopted. If you, Paul C. Jesup, want a right to sodomy, lobby your state legislature to legalize the activity, but let's not pretend such a right is in the Constitution.
To: irishjuggler
Good for Georgia, but it's not the job of the U.S. Supreme Court to decide what the government should or should not be able to do based on some vague concept of "staying out of the bedroom."
See the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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