[Steve_Seattle]

I think in the last 50 years, about three people have been prosecuted under these anti-sodomy laws, and these were people whose behavior was discovered inadvertenely by police investigating unrelated criminal activity. But supporters of this decision will hail it as a tremdous civil rights victory, "getting the police out of our bedrooms." What it is, is another extension of the bogus "right to privacy" claims which undergird Roe v. Wade.

[CobaltBlue]

"Right to privacy" is older than Roe v. Wade. Griswold vs. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965) is the first to use the right to privacy to strike down a state statute. The statute in question prohibited the sale of contraceptives.

Legal scholars, for example Brandeis, argued for a right to privacy - "the right to be let alone" - in law review articles written in the 19th century.