[First Amendment]

So perhaps we should have taken consenting adults who commit adultery or homosexuality in the privacy of their homes and thrown them all in jail, and we would have prevented this sort of sexual permissiveness?

Santorum looks like an idiot.

If you had done any reading on Santorum's statement and what he subsequently said (I can' believe you haven't) you would know that he - and others who agree with him - do not want police banging on doors to see what people are doing in the privacy of their houses. The whole intent and purpose of anti-sodomy laws are to keep deviant sexual behavior PRIVATE - where it belongs. To keep deviant sexual behavior from becoming public and mainstream, thereby destroying the moral fabric and foundation of civilization.

Santorum got it right.

[Kuksool]

The Supreme Court did not invalidate all sodomy laws. The Texas Sodomy decision effected only laws concerning private sex acts. Several states such as NC and VA are still enforcing their sodomy laws. Local officials in those states argue that their laws concern public acts, not private, and apply to straights as well as gays. Of course, the ACLU and other gay rights groups are not pleased. Looks like the Supreme Court shall be handling another sodomy case in the near future.

[Jorge]

If you had done any reading on Santorum's statement and what he subsequently said (I can' believe you haven't) you would know that he - and others who agree with him - do not want police banging on doors to see what people are doing in the privacy of their houses.

I read everything Santorum was saying. He was contradicting himself all over the map.

The case he was commenting on was one where police entered the bedroom of consenting adults and arrested them for sodomy.
To say he supports those laws without the ability of police to enforce them is incoherant.