[Paul C. Jesup]

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.

[VRWCmember]

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.

Then as long as one limits one's illegal activities to the confines of one's home and avoids anything that creates probable cause, one can violate any and all laws with impunity.

For the 4th amendment to apply to this issue, you would have to have a situation where the government entered without probable cause and found an illegal activity going on. In this case, they entered with probable cause after an open invitation to do so. They didn't go around looking for homos engaging in sodomy.

[andyk]

See the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:

Do you believe that anti-sodomy laws which predated the US Constitution were made unconstitutional at the moment it was ratified?

[irishjuggler]

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.

If the 4th amendment guaranteed a right to sodomy, why were 18th and 19th century sodomy laws never challenged on that basis? Why did it take 200 years for anyone to figure out that the 4th amendment has the meaning that you claim?