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To my mind, the thing that stinks in this case is that the law was never enforced against private behavior until this case. If a law is widely ignored by both citizens and police, the police should not have the authority to enforce the law against any behavior which is not in some way more eggregious than behavior which cops routinely ignore.

I don't really know enough about the facts of this case to know what's really going on, but something stinks. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if some gay "advocates" tried to have these guy's arrested so they'd have a grievance against the government. Or if a former sex partner of one of the people tried to get them in trouble. To put it another way, something stinks--I just don't know what.

I wouldn't be surprised, though, if some gay "advocates" tried to have these guy's arrested so they'd have a grievance against the government. Or if a former sex partner of one of the people tried to get them in trouble. To put it another way, something stinks--I just don't know what.

You wouldn't be off the mark to follow that reasoning. Contrary to the claims that some have made that the caller was a homophobic neighbor (based on pure conjecture) the caller was actually a homosexual lover and roommate of one of the men. Reportedly there was a history of these men making false phone calls on each other.

The caller is now dead (unrelated assault in 2000) so we can only go on the word of these 2 men. I have not seen an interview of them describing what happened that night. I doubt that they would go on record as to just how they found themselves under arrest (for an offense that normally only carries a fine) in an unlocked apartment with police in their bedroom while they engaged in anal intercourse.

To my mind, the thing that stinks in this case is that the law was never enforced against private behavior until this case.

Correction: until this case there had not been an instance in Teaxas of two adults being arrested for engaging in this vile behavior in the privacy of the home. It has been extensively used to prosecute the activity when discovered anywhere else. And here, the only reason the police were in the room is because the gay activists conspired to file a false report with the police to entice the police into the bedroom.

That's a huge difference.

If this case results in the "discovery" of a fundamental right to engage in sodomy, it have far wider impact on culture, society, and our laws than simply legalizing the vile, disease-spreading, early death-inducing act of sodomy wherever it may be found. It will give renewed vigor to federal and state hate-crime legislation initiatives and open the door to the related claim: that there is a "fundamental right" to same sex marriage. The government will be MORE involved in the lives of its citizens than ever.

Gay activists may be vile, but they are not stupid.