A right wing Supreme Court.

The Consequences?

You won't have to worry so much about governmental takings of your private property for public use--the right wing and religious ideologues will throw you a bone and allow you to keep your house (maybe) so long as they can regulate all activity that goes on in your bedroom. Your "right to privacy" will be extinquished.

Oh well.

Debra_Law
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Debra_Law
Regulate what goes on in my bedroom. Hell, nothing new there. My wife has been doing that for years.

Sex is the root of many of the social ills that plague our country. The government has a legitimate interest in curtailing those social ills by regulating the sexual activities of residents. Widespread, indiscriminate regulation of bedroom activities seems rationally related to legitimate government interests.

Accordingly, there ought to be a law that prohibits sexual relations in the absence of a license issued solely to couples actively seeking to conceive a child (providing they qualify to receive their child-bearing license, of course) and only if done in the missionary position. All other sexual positions are lewd and lascivious--and we all know that the government has the police power to criminalize lewd and lascivious conduct in accordance with the moral disapproval of the religious folk.

After all, the Constitution doesn't prohibit the government from regulating our liberty interests (which does not include a right to privacy, according to "strict constructionists") so long as we're provided due process of law.

Debra
Sex is the root of many of the social ills that plague our country.

I agree considering that it was a sexual act that produced G. Bush.

Where were the right-wingers when we desperately needed them 60 years ago?

Oh yeah--they were quite busy keeping the black folk in the back of the bus.