I think striking down that law is a good thing. Who are we to say where you can put your mouth? It's your mouth, after all. But the right wing-ers decry the ruling saying that there is no morality in the law anymore. We may as well allow consensual incest since such behavior falls under the same category of "doesn't hurt anyone but themselves, and the participants want to do it".

Our cultural moral seems to rest on freedom—anything is allowed so long as the action doesn't hurt another. (I know from Burning Man experiences that as a guide of action, this imperative is meaningless. Nearly every action on my part impinges on at least someone else if not on many.) The great tragedy and loss in this approach is that community values are lost.

Mankind and womankind are so constructed that almost any behavior is viable. Now in the modern age, we will try all of them. but in the infinity of possibility we will never accomplish even the smallest fraction of all the possible. We are inevitably limited to the merest sliver of actions, and in our freedom, unwittingly confined to a narrow range of behavior.

We need a soul. I need a soul. If government can't give it to us (I don't expect that it can or should) we need to find soul somewhere else. Where will we find it?