What on earth is Bill Frist talking about?
Frist, the Republican Majority Leader in the Senate, says the recent U.S. Supreme Court Decision on sodomy laws is an infringement on privacy. Not the law, which sought to regulate conduct between consenting adults, but the court decision overturning the law. See if you can make any sense out of this: Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said the Supreme Courts decision last week on gay sex threatens to make the American home a place where criminality is condoned. The court on Thursday threw out a Texas law that prohibited acts of sodomy between homosexuals in a private home, saying that such a prohibition violates the defendants privacy rights under the Constitution. The ruling invalidated the Texas law and similar statutes in 12 other states. “I have this fear that this zone of privacy that we all want protected in our own homes is gradually or Im concerned about the potential for it gradually being encroached upon, where criminal activity within the home would in some way be condoned, Frist to
