“A King or leader never paraded his mistress around?”
Parading a mistress about, fully clothed, is a different thing from public and too-specific discussions of exactly what’s going on when the naughty bits come out.
“After the King’s death the prelate of the Church had her dug up and reburied outside the Church, because she was an infamous adulteress.”
Church of England, I might add, and if it was their rule that people could not be buried in consecrated ground under some circumstances, well, that’s the way it was.
“Now if everyone in the kingdom, even a dozen years after the King’s death, knew that Rosamund was his mistress; that was hardly being kept “behind closed doors”.”
Oh, really? Do you suppose that everyone in the kingdom knew exactly when and where she took his penis in her mouth, and who he was talking to at the time, and where he washed himself, and upon what garments she drooled semen? All those things are true of Slick Willie.
If all people know is that two people are accomplices in adultry, I’d say that was keeping quite a lot behind closed doors—compared to Clintoon, anyway.
“The criminal collusion of Ken Starr? Stock up on tinfoil much?”
Wear 360-degree blinders much?
“Maybe? Do you see a “compelling government interest” in regulating such behavior?”
I’m not sure today. Tomorrow I might have a better understanding. I will say that if kids know that mom and pop do it—or that the president does it—they will be more likely to do it themselves, when it could result in real harm.
“Do you see it as authorized under an expansive reading of the “interstate commerce” clause?”
Who mentioned a federal law?
“Do you feel that this position is compatible with the notion of limited government?”
Thomas Jefferson did.
And can you imagine what would have ensued if someone had walked into Independence Hall, when all the boys were there for another day of creating the most noble document ever penned by man, and some idiot had walked in and started telling John Dickinson, Gouverneur Morris, Edmund Randolph, Roger Sherman, James Wilson, George Wythe, James Madison, and George Washington about the barmaid who fellated him the night before, and how it felt, and how she drooled ejaculate on her dress?
It’s really pretty simple, unless you’re under the sway of the glamor of Evil. A properly formed conscience will tell a man what things are sufficiently harmful to justify criminalization.