Currently, the Supreme Court justices are debating whether or not sodomy laws should be continued in Texas. The case was brought about after Houston police arrested two gay men for engaging in activities that would have been legal for heterosexual couples, according to the Associated Press.
Such a debate goes to show that states with these restrictions need to rethink their plans.
According the Associated Press, Texas said the law promotes the institutions of marriage and family, and communities have the right to choose their own standards.
This law puts a very strict limit on the definition of a family, a marriage and a community.
One of the definitions for a marriage in Webster's dictionary is "any close or intimate union."
The same dictionary lists a family as "a group consisting of two parents and their children" or "all the people living in the same house."
Any two human beings can achieve these unions, regardless of their gender.
As the Supreme Court debates the issue of morals, history and privacy, states with similar regulations should be evaluating such laws.
Since these laws were written, sexual revolutions have created a culture more open to different lifestyles.
Not only is this law restrictive, it also invades the privacy of any sexually active American.
This view does not condone illegal sex acts such as rape and sexual abuse, but rather demands that the average American be free to experience sexual intercourse as they deem fit.
Government officials should spend less time making moral judgments concerned with the sexual lives of their constituents and more time rethinking out-of-date laws.
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