"Does a "liberal" construction of our rights include the "right" to sodomy, gay marriage, and abortion? Because if that's what you mean by liberal, this conservative wants no part of it."
Sodomy and gay marriage are things that the government is NOT empowered to interfere with(Marriage is no where mentioned in the constitution). Abortion is different because it deals with the right to life, which is a clearly enumerated power. If the Constitution (state or federal) does not give a power to the government, the government does NOT have that power. The government has no proper authority to interfere with any activity that does not infringe on the right to life, liberty, or property of another individual.
Not at the federal level. Laws about murder are state issues. Most laws are state laws. The feds have crept into several areas, but that's not to my liking, or in accordance with the concept of the Constitution.
And since the federal government is NOT empowered to restrict these things, then those powers are reserved to the states, or to the people.
The government has no proper authority to interfere with any activity that does not infringe on the right to life, liberty, or property of another individual.
The Constitution does not say that.
Homosexual sodomy is a form of murder, since it destroys both the soul and the body.