[ModelBreaker]

y'know the repetition of "manufactured right to privacy" as if it were some kind of mantra really gets on my nerves. My right of privacy preceeded govt and the constitution and doesn't have to be manufactured by anybody seeing as how it already existed and nobody can lawfully take it away.

The constitution does not give six unelected old f##ts the power to tell the states what they can and cannot make private. As a federal constitutional power, it does not exist. Thus, as a federal constitutional right, it was entirely manufactured out of, dare I say, wholecloth.

Do you have any doubt but that the founding fathers thought state sodomy laws were constitutional and based on sound policy? Or that the post-civil-war congress (who passed the 14th amendment) also felt the same way. If so, why did both groups write a constitution that banned state sodomy laws? The answer (of course) is, they did not and no reasonable person can argue otherwise, without being willfully blind to the constitution and the historic record.

It took 230 years for six old f##ts to make-up the right of Sodomy (or the right of "privacy" for the squeamish who need nice euphemisms). "Manufactured right" is a reasonable synonym for this entirely made up right.

And that's why the term "manufactured" right is repeated over-and-over. And that's why, for that use, the term is quite precise.

[agitator]

I tuned back in late so I'll just do a mass reply. The phrase "manufactured right of..." would best be applied to the word "authority," not "privacy." I really could care less what two people do in a private home; what they do in the bushes of a roadside rest area is entirely another matter. In any event, and as unpopular as it may seem to some, the issue at hand like the issue of abortion is properly in the domain of the states, not the federal govt.

What the reference to "anarchy" was about in one of the comments I don't know but my defense of the 9th Amendment stands :)