The word “sodomy” has biblical roots, but - in the American legal tradition - the word has never meant homosexuality. Homosexual acts are an example of sodomy, but the word meant a lot else besides. Generally, oral and anal sex were prohibited, even among married couples, occasionally - but not always - sex acts between women were prohibited, and at various times, intercourse with contraception (”face-to-face sodomy”), masturbation, and what the law called “extended foreplay” (that did not lead to intercourse) were also prohibited by the sodomy laws.
Whether these laws were vigorously enforced was not primary. The laws were an expression of communal morality, and served to remind people that the purpose of sex was procreation.
My own view is that such laws made sense in the past but not today, when the law has taken a hands-off approach to sexual matters in most other areas (adultery, fornication, divorce/remarriage, etc). Reintroducing sodomy laws now would certainly be constitutional, but they would be entirely unenforceable, and would bring the law into disrepute.
BS
Perverted, sodomite marriage (AKA homosexuality) has been soundly defeated in every single state where it was placed on the ballot. In all 31 out of the 31 states that held referendum on the issue, the majority told the sodomites to get bent. Even in the uber-liberal (bankrupt) peoples socialist utopia of California..
I just have to laugh when I read posts by so called "libertarians" that claim republicans must adopt the entire perverted social platform of the left or continue to lose elections, and then watch folks like yourself go into a nail biting nervous fit, and start posting a twisted wad of sycophantic queer (sodomite) friendly "revisionist" history you've been indoctrinated with.