On that thread we react favorably to the federal government intruding in the private lives about what we are permitted to ingest and not ingest on pain of criminal sanctions. It does so without constitutional warrant.
Here, we are dealing in an area in which the federal government has and should have extreme sweeping power over the private lives of its sailors to maintain combat effectiveness and yet in this area we have resistance from FReepers. Here the federal government is fully authorized by the Constitution to act but it has refrained from imposing criminal sanctions.
If we are conservatives, it seems to me we ought to judge matters first on their constitutionality and then on whether we like the policy rather than determining constitutionality by whether we like the policy.
