The Right to Privacy—Stick It In!
Dan Savage makes a suggestion that is so splendid someone should have thought of it sooner: If we're going to spend so much time arguing about whether the Constitution includes a "right to privacy," why not simply amend the Constitution and explicitly add one?
As Savage rightly notes, such a right would be quite popular, and it would be fun to watch Republicans try to explain their non-support. Yet by supporting it, they would alienate their base of social conservatives, who believe that none of us have an inalienable right to have sex in the privacy of our homes, or watch porn in the privacy of our homes, or use birth control. Finally--a wedge issue that works for Democrats! Between this and stem cells, we could once again be the majority party!
This may be the best strategy I've yet heard for reversing our nation's present political woes and expanding liberty at the same time.
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Nope, no right to be let alone. Yet we have a right to exclude.
But the "right to privacy" still seems to be the reasoning behind a lot of decisions even thought it doesn't technically exist.
All the uber-fun cases I'm reading right now. Thanks for reminding me. :P
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