What two people do behind closed doors, is not the governments business.My uncle told me about this and a bunch of other people,but they never gave me answers on why,the certain state laws prohibit that.I'm just wondering if someone hear can help me with that answer.
2007-01-12 08:07:37 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
What you do behind closed doors is God's business, and good lawmakers obey God.
2007-01-12 08:12:31 · answer #1 · answered by Preacher 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
The long answer involves ancient puritantical attitudes towards sex, homophobia, and lots of other stuff.
The short answer is that no such laws are enforceable, since the U.S. Supreme Court declared that any laws regulating the sexual conduct of adults in private violate the United States Constitution in Lawrence v. Texas (2003) 539 U.S. 558. Basically, they agreed with you: it is not the government's business.
See, you are as smart as a Supreme Court justice, and smarter than Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas, all of whom thought that the government is entitled to go into your bedroom.
2007-01-12 17:14:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are right and the laws don't get enforced. It is like the law in my hometown where it is illegal to push a stroller down main street on Sunday or where you can only beat your wife on Sunday on the court house steps. They were so silly that they were never removed from the books.
2007-01-12 16:14:16 · answer #3 · answered by joevette 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because most of those laws are archaic. And how would anyone know what you are doing in the privacy of your own home anyway, unless they are a friggen peeping Tom (which by the way is REALLY a crime). Its YOUR business not law enforcement UNLESS of course, these acts are being committed in front of others in a public setting.
People do what they want and it really is NOT anyone else's business I say.
2007-01-12 16:15:02 · answer #4 · answered by rare2findd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know, there may be only one state left that makes sodomy illegal. I can't recall if it's Mississippi or not. I know we struck down our (Arkansas) sodomy law a few years ago. And the reason why it's been found unconstitutional is because of just why you stated--a person has a right to privacy in their own home......as long as it consenting adults.
2007-01-12 16:13:06 · answer #5 · answered by kathylouisehall 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it is believed that they are unnatural and improper forms of sexual expression and while they occur behind closed doors they can be used as blackmail against the people who engage in them but wish to keep that fact secret, And if it is is behind locked doors, and private how is it that the LEO's have reason to know it is occuring and thus know if it needs to be stopped.
I personally subscribe to the theory that so long as I am not involved in some ones sex life i have no right to restict it.
2007-01-12 16:15:54 · answer #6 · answered by janssen411 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because America was founded by puritans. And those laws are very old, but they are so old, that I really don't think that many law makers even really remember they are there. So really as long as you are behind closed doors, no one can arrest you for gettin' busy.
2007-01-12 16:17:30 · answer #7 · answered by Bevin M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some laws may derive from religion, but not everyone practices the same religion, so some laws make no sense what so ever, even if it is your religion, it's up to God to judge you, and not man to.
2007-01-12 16:14:51 · answer #8 · answered by Success Ink 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it offended the moralaties of lawmakers in the Victorian era.
It was mainly used as a means to make homosexuality illegal.
2007-01-12 16:17:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an archaic law that hasn't been updated for many years. That law is also in the militaries UCMJ under sodomy
2007-01-12 16:11:20 · answer #10 · answered by gary_buttrey 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it doesn,t happen here in the uk,but i guess it is because the people who make the laws ,are doing these things themselves for some kind of wierd kink they probably have about breaking the law. hope that helps.lol
2007-01-12 16:42:15 · answer #11 · answered by bigplops 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋