[B Knotts]

Morality and legality are often (but not always) two very different things.

[kegler4]

"Morality and legality are often (but not always) two very different things."

I realize we have two main objections going on here -- the moral crowd and the constitutional crowd. It appears from Thomas' remark that he doesn't agree with the morality viewpoint.

I'm not sure exactly here I fall as to whether the court should have intervened, but I know I don't like it that my own state has a law that allows the police to arrest me and my wife if they were to catch us performing a certain sex act in the privacy of our bedroom. I know the police aren't likely to break down our door looking for sodomy violations, but that doesn't make it right. And yes, I've expressed my opinion to my state representatives.

[HumanaeVitae]

Morality and legality are often (but not always) two very different things.

There pretty much always the same thing. The law is about what you 'ought' do and what you 'ought not' do. Where the law is silent on what you 'ought not' do there is tacit approval. 'Oughts' and 'ought nots' are value-decisions. Thus they are moral decisions. The idea that the law and morality can be divorced is only a doctrine that can be held by libertarians who want society to be forced to ignore the costs of perversion.