Such laws cannot be practically enforced within the confines of the home, and that's perfectly fine. There are many, many laws that cannot be effecvely enforced within the home. Mutual assault and battery is by far the most frequently committed crime in the home that cannot be effectively prosecuted.
BTW, "consensual" sodomy (in the home, out of it, . . . who cares where?) by an AIDS carrier can result in a death more painful and hideous than any torture devised by man. To a lesser extent this is also true of anal gonnorhea and hepatitis B. Of course, now that we spend more taxpayer money on AIDS research than the other top three diseases combined, we've been able find, fund, and distribute a cocktail of drugs enables sodomizers to again indulge their perversion relatively freely--at taxpayer expense, of course.
To do away with such laws wholesale by fightening people with threat of bogeyman "bedroom police" which have never existed and never will exist, is disingenuous at best. It's a bald-faced lie at worst.
When we eliminate the laws wholesale in the idiot belief that we must be open-minded and tolerant, the only message we send (or that is heard) is "Party on ,dude! Someone else will clean up you mess later for you!"
As they are in mine, and they should be. I don't want to even see heterosexuals engaged in flagrante in public places, and I believe the laws against public lewdness cover that.
Of course, you recognize that with this statement:
Such laws cannot be practically enforced within the confines of the home, and that's perfectly fine.
That's all I've been saying for the past two weeks, except that such laws have no practical effect, and could be repealed, as they have been in over 20 states, with no detrimental effects whatsoever.
Should the fact that the state makes no effort to pursue such acts in people's homes be a basis for a laches defense in cases like the current "Texas sodomy case"?
Exactly. The existence of laws which proscribe a cruel behavior means it will be a lot harder for them to get together, and there would be a lot less cruelty going on. Now, since the Democratic moral-liberals passed all this garbage legislation (which the libertarians are praising) it doesn't stay hidden in the bedroom but is shoved into everyone's faces, including children's.
Try to find a newspaper in any large town, with so-called 'consenting adults' state laws, which doesn't feature a 'Gay Scene' section, filled with want ads. Try to walk down the street, or see Disneyland, without perversion being paraded in front of families. Laws against perversion would again force it into the closet where it rightfully belongs.