[Buckeye Bomber]

Wouldn't it be better to side with people choosing what they can do unless the government can cite clear reasons for regulating their behavior? Since when do people talk about the rights of the government to regulate us?

I'm not a Constitutional scholar (yet). I'll look into this privacy debate, and get back to you. Until then, I believe the burden of proof should be on the government to prove why it needs to regulate our lives, rather than us proving why they shouldn't.

[Gee Wally]

Since when do people talk about the rights of the government to regulate us?

The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution provides: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The case before the Supreme Court has to do with whether or not the Federal Constitution prohibits a state from enacting and enforcing an anti-sodomy law. Up until the 1960's, the power of the states to do so would not have seriously been questioned. Since that time, however, the Supreme Court has discovered in penumbras, shadows, and emanations a wide-ranging "right to privacy" that somehow the framers of the Constitution and Supreme Court justices over the first 170 years of this Free Republic did not see. We no longer have constitutional governance. Rather, we are now governed by the super-legislature that is the unelected, life-time tenured justices of the Supreme Court who have to answer to no one but themselves.