Santorum is right. This is going to open the floodgates for all sorts of stuff we've been trying to keep under control, like prostitution and pedophelia.
I fear the judgement of God on our nation.
This is absolutely silly, laughable, and more to the point, wrong. Pedophilia has NOTHING to do with a ruling that addresses private acts between consenting adults. Such extreme statements are the kind that gives the left ammunition when stating that the religious right is trying to impose their religious moral ethic on the nation.
As for prostitution, I have long held that if Roe is to be interpreted as recognizing the right to bodily privacy and control under the 9th ammendment then prostitution must be legalized to apply the decision equitably. Lawrence makes the case even more clearly. Such is the nature of the law of unintended consequences.
However, this is nation of laws not of religions. The constitutional separation of church and state in part guarantees that a dominant religion cannot become a defacto national religion. One of the inherent problems with this is that we fight tooth and nail to keep the government out of our religions, yet we all too often insist that the government answer to our religious ideals. To be effective within a free government the church must recognize and respect the separation as equally as they expect the government to do so. The church must uphold it's end of the 1st Ammendment separation. There will forver be times when the government, in it's obligation to serve ALL citizens equally, must hold the basic moral ethics of judeo-christian theology at arms length.