[Cacique]

All actions by all individuals whether in private or in public, whether consensual or not have public consequences. I pay taxes to educate other people's children which they had by a private consensual act. Our entire society is the result of the small private decisions of individuals which have public and societal consequences one way or another. Nothing that you do in private can in any way be divorced from consequences which in the end must be paid for by your neighbors.

You may if you wish claim to have "rights". However consequences of actions are not subject to debate. They simply are.

[muir_redwoods]

"You may if you wish claim to have "rights". However consequences of actions are not subject to debate. They simply are."

Okay so how about my economic choices? Do you want to use community impact to control my economic decisions as well? That's called socialism, are you in favor of that? If not why not?

The difference is that the puritan-flavored objection to private choices about sex makes sense to moralists. But sexual choices are as much my own business as are economic choices. I am an adult. I am free to make choices without undue regard for the objections of those without standing in the decision. In short, the wisdom here is the wisdom your mother no doubt tried to impart when you were very young; mind you own business.