On Monday, the Supreme Court decided it will hear a case that will consider the constitutionality of sodomy laws in 13 states across the country. Nine of these states - Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Utah and Virginia - ban consensual sodomy for everyone, gay, straight or otherwise, whereas the remaining four - Texas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma - only punish same-sex sodomy.

For those who find the term "sodomy" as archaic as the phrase "Me caveman, you woman. Me hit you over head with big stick," it is loosely defined as "abnormal sex." And basically, the middle-aged, middle- and upper-class, old white fogies who have held the majority in state legislatures get to decide what that is.

I don't know about you, but the thought of all these 50- to 60-somethings coming together and drafting laws, or ways to keep them, regarding what consenting adults should be allowed to do together is enough to drive a chill up my spine.

The last time the Supreme Court heard a similar case was in 1986 (not all that long ago, mind you), and it ruled 5-4 that private homosexual sex between consenting adults isn't a constitutional right, thus upholding anti-sodomy laws.

The case that has crept its way to the Supreme Court involves a 1998 case of two men who were arrested, jailed and fined under Texas' Homosexual Conduct Law, which criminalizes sex between same-sex partners.

As one of the men's lawyers commented to Fox News, "The idea that a state may enter into American bedrooms and closely inspect the most intimate and private physical interactions