[Clint N. Suhks]

Come up with the constitutional provisions giving the government the power to control private sexual activities between its citizens.

That would be the 10th Amendment through our representatives. Or are you one of those Liberaltarians who doesn’t know the meaning of “certain rights”. Incest, bestiality, consensual pedophilia…you know those kind of “private sexual acts”.

Who empowered you with the right to decide that for the whole of society, since you are discussing the "rights" of society?

See above.

[breakem]

You've been on at least two threads recently where consentual was explained to you and why children and animals can't legally give consent. Either you are one of the most disingenuous posters here or you have severe old-timers disease.

Get another schtick or move on.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Amendment IX

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

You mean that?

I see the rights reserved to the people.

The Constitution does not delegate the right to regulate sexual activity in any degree to the Federal government. From Amendment IX we know that the Founders recognized rights beyond those specifically enumerated in the Constitution and the ensuing Amendments to it. One of those rights is the right to privacy, and yet another right, one that protects us against unreasonable search and seizure, makes anti-sodomy laws ridiculous, in light of the fact that sex in public is prohibited everywhere.

By the way, before you argue that there is no such thing such as "the right to privacy", please explain why the government is required to obtain a Court order to open someone's mail, or to wiretap their telephones?

The "incest, bestiality, necrophilia..." strawman is old.

Try to think one up of your own.