That may be, but as a conservative, the problem is the newer laws and policies not the Constitution, which does not allow for depravity. The more we dumb down what is acceptable in society, the less we get from people as far as decency. Actually, the Constitution does allow depravity if the state or the federal government chooses not to prohibit it. The Supreme Court in the Texas sodomy case when a step further and said that the Constitution prohibits a state from criminalizing depravity-sodomy in private between consulting adults-on privacy grounds.
The question for conservatives I think is what do we do now that the law is not available to enforce "decency" which you say will result in the dumbing down of society?I tried to articulate in my vanity some of the areas which I described as having" higher value"which should still be permitted by the courts to be enforced and which also, fortuitously, politically advantageous.
The key word is “privacy”. And the problem with this particular agenda referring to that word, is their definition of it. Ever broadening, and ever changing. Not many have a problem with what goes on in a bedroom, between two consenting adults. But that is not what this agenda limits itself to. They are broadening privacy to mean all areas of life, not just the bedroom.
I agree the cops didn’t go far enough, thus haven’t a lot to go on in a court case, but it is their policy that should be changed, not our views on the subject. I applaud their attempting to stop this behavior. And they have done extensive investigations to find out the places, as well as what these codes consist of. I have a problem with the fact that these codes exist, and that they are so well known, and practiced.