I DON’T DO “EQUAL TIME” HERE — people who want equal time can get their own damn blogs — but so as not to be completely one-sided (even if it’s the right side, in my opinion) on the whole sodomy-law argument here’s a link to Clayton Cramer’s defense of sodomy laws.

I find it unpersuasive — both because sodomy laws were seldom enforced anyway, and because I find this argument absurd:

A rare disease [AIDS] –one that had been kicking around Africa and even a bit in the West for decades–took off because California, in the mid-1970s, decided to repeal its laws against sodomy and oral sex.

The notion that sodomy laws prevent AIDS is ridiculous. Saudi Arabia has quite an AIDS problem — they just don’t talk about it. That’s what sodomy laws accomplish.

There is, by the way, much, much more on this stuff over at The Volokh Conspiracy, where Santorum’s remarks have precipitated much discussion of sodomy, bestiality, incest, etc.