Elf Sternberg

That's a point I won't conceed. I wasn't making a legal point. I was making a philosophical and moral point, and the Dec of Indep is a totally valid source in that context.

Moreover, you're debatably not even technically correct on the merits. Under fundamental assumptions of unenumerated rights as well as the plain language of the Ninth Amendment, I certainly do have legal, technical right to 'be' queer, and more practically I have the technical right to all the queer sex I care to have (with other consenting adults). Contrary legal opinions, frankly, are uniformly so poorly reasoned that I tend to regard the entire opposing camp as thoroughly intellectually bankrupt.