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How can any conservative argue against a right to privacy.

How does anyone go from the right of people to have consensual sex to legal gay marriage is beyond me.

Marriage is not private. It has public ramification. From the license to tax laws.

So sure a couple of gays can consider themselves married, call themselves married if they wish, but their right to the privacy of their sex lives doesn't extend to the State recognizing their relationship as marriage.

This right to privacy was first enunciated in Griswald, where the State of Connecticut had laws against married people using contraceptives. Would you have voted any other way? Do you not believe you have an absolute privacy right to contraceptives if you so wish? By the way, the author here is wrong. The privacy right was found to be an "unenumerated right" not necessarily derived from the 14th.

I'm probably out there on this board, but I believe for an American the right to privacy is one that should be cherished and extended.

Where this law should lead is to abolishing consensual prostitution laws. Even some drug laws should be abolished. Even if it makes some uneasy there is no right for the State to intrude into such activities as long as they are in actuality and practice both private and consensual.

But, what I really want abolished, what I believe is an intrusion into my privacy is seat belt laws. I believe I have a privacy right not to wear the damn seat belts if I don't want to. My not wearing seat belts harms no one, except potentially myself, and the State has no right to intrude.

Where this law should lead is to abolishing consensual prostitution laws. Even some drug laws should be abolished. Even if it makes some uneasy there is no right for the State to intrude into such activities as long as they are in actuality and practice both private and consensual.

A good start, but what I'd really like to see emerge from this is the IRS being enjoined from examining the financial status of individuals. We would have to convert from income taxation to consumption (sales) taxes, tariffs, and user fees for specified services. Then we would see a serious attack on government spending.

Too bad John Wayne Gacy was executed. He could argue that what he did in the privacy of his own home was his unalienable right. It only concerned him and his consenting murder victim.

If the writers of the constitution thought privacy was an unalienable right, why did their societies permit laws that are now being overturned by this right?

If you want prostitution and driving without seatbelts to be legal, petition you state legislature.