Nor is there a blanket right to "breathe" or any such thing. [sarcastic? You bet.]
Check out the 9th for the necessity to enumerate rights. - And reflect that your denial of a right to privacy for yourself is just fine with me. Join some commune, - whatever.. Live as you please.. And let me & mine be.
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You completely ignore our entire legal tradition. The Ninth Amendment cannot be used to create new Constitutional rights that our 500-year-old body of legal history has NEVER recognized.
They were first recognised in our constitution, then reiterated in the 14th. You ignore them, not I.
The founding fathers did not see any problem with the sodomy laws enacted in nearly every state. Sodomy laws were not even remotely controversial, and did not--unlike slavery, for example--contrast with anything contained in the Constitution, Declaration or other founding documents, or the writings and conversations of the Founding Fathers.
See the BOR's. Rights to a private life, liberty, & private property are protected.
If you want to live in a libertarian society, go somewhere else. We have a constitution, rule of law and legal tradition in this country. We're not supposed to be ruled by just whatever any judge can pull out of his a$$.
You are trying to shove your views on a 'moral society' up ours dispite our constitution, rule of law and legal tradition. Get real, or get lost.
Sodomy wasn't recognized as a right by the people who ratified the Constitution or the 14th Amendment, your piteous question begging notwithstanding.
Let's see the text. I read it, and I don't see any such right. And why was the right to any private sexual behavior never recognized before by the federal government or any state government?