[eno_]

"Why is this different from bigamy?"

That one is easy: Bigamy requires state sanction. If he had asked "Why is this different from group sex?" the simple answer would of course be that it isn't.

Burger was also wrong: "To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right," he said, "would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching."

No, it would only cast aside government as an incompetent and incapable enforcer of morality.

[The Red Zone]

Every law embodies a moral statement. I never heard of one that didn't.

The proper question, of course, is what should and shouldn't laws seek to control. We probably do want laws against murder. We probably don't want laws against blasphemy. In the great between, lies the debate.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Yep. Too bad you can't ask justices questions. I'd like to hear Scalia say it would be legal for the government to outlaw all sexual relations except missionary position in a bed in a bedroom with the lights out between married heterosexual adults ages 21-40.