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Wow, people are really freaking out over this, lol. Where to begin?

Okay. I don't see how legalizing sodomy or whatever, is going to lead to millions of people boinking in the streets. It is not changing the law to say, "Okay, sodomy is legal, but only in public!" No. If public nudity is illegal, so is public sex. And how many of you have actually ever seen a couple going at it in the open?

Secondly, most of you seem to be using the term "homosexual sodomy". Can I take that to mean that sodomy between a husband and wife should be legal? Many, many hetero men try to get their wives, girlfriends, onenighters, what have you--to do "you know what". I bet a lot of the FReeper men have brought this up to their women, and I bet a lot of FReeper women have had this subject broached to them before.

While sodomy is certainly not a pleasant thought for most of us (namely women, I think) the decision whether to do it or not should be up to the receiver.

Wow, people are really freaking out over this, lol. Where to begin? Okay. I don't see how legalizing sodomy or whatever, is going to lead to millions of people boinking in the streets.

Frankly, I don't care what people do in their bedroom. I think the sodomy laws are silly and unenforceable. But people should be freaking out about this case because it would set a horrible constitutional precedent in two regards:

1. It would extend the fanciful and a-constutional Roe vs Wade 'right of privacy' very significantly, making it much harder for future supreme courts to limit or overrule Roe. Bad constitutional law is bad for everyone and is grounds for freaking out, as you put it.

2. A decision overruling the Georgia statute would have the effect of federalizing the regulation of morality and public health. Those decisiions are best kept at the state and local level.

Laugh out loud if you want. But each bad constitutional decision takes us one step further from a constitutional federal republic. This case would be a particualarly big step.