[El Gato]

According to this "party" and some freepers, the states have the right to tell us what to have for breaksaft, when to eat, when to go outside, what to name our kids, and on and on. When and how did people get the idea that the constitution's purpose was to list all human rights. This type of think is dangerous and opens us up to the worst kind of totalitarianism. Let Freedom Ring!

First of all, states have no rights, only powers. Secondly, the people of the state should look to their own courts and Constitutions to protect against such abuses by state legislatures and executives, although in this case those things were pre-existing rights or powers of the people, and their retention of them is protected by the 9th amendment. There is no right to commit homosexual acts explicitly protected, and to argue that there is a right which pre-existed the Constitution to do so which is "retained" by the people, is pretty silly, especially in light of the fact that such practices were illegal in all of the 13 original states at the time. It was not protected by any laws, state Constitutions, nor those of the colonies of England itself.

It's also pretty silly to argue that anything anyone wants to do is a "fundamental right" not subject to any regulation by the states.

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It's also pretty silly that you think the government in eaxh state has to power to restrict these personal freedoms. It was not silly however to say that historically there have been many laws which took away human rights or liberty. Silly that some people just don't believe that should continue. Damn silly!