The United States Constitution contains as one of our unspecified rights the “right to privacy”.

We DO HAVE rights that are not specified in the Constitution. Read the Ninth Amendment if you doubt this. Search www.RadMod.com for instances where I’ve talked about the Ninth Amendment if you want more info.

Back in the 1960’s, our Supreme Court recognized the “right to privacy” in the famous case of Griswold v. Connecticut. Griswold involved whether the State of Connecticut could ban contraceptives.

Our Constitution does not mention “birth control” just like it doesn’t mention television, the internet, automobiles, or any number of other things.

So, since the Constitution is silent about birth control, why can’t the States ban birth control?

Well, the USSC decided that the State exceeds its powers when it seeks to ban birth control, because we enjoy a fundamental “right to privacy” (one of our unspecified rights that are reserved to “The People” in the Constitution).

During a recent interview between Senator Rick Santorum and CNN’s Aaron Brown, Brown asked Santorum whether he believed that our Constitution provided for the right to privacy. Santorum said NO.

Santorum thinks that Griswold was wrongly decided, and that an activist USSC created the “right to privacy” out of “whole cloth”.

Santorum is a theocrat who would like to impose his narrow minded religious views on the rest of us, through big brother controls over our very most personal lives, as well as severely control what we can say and read and see. But that pesky old Constitution gets in the way, with its prohibition of establishment of a State religion, and its protection of individual rights. And so Santorum must work to appoint judges who would undo many decades of pro-liberty court cases. He’s not a conservative. He’s a radical of the anti-liberty sort.

Since theocrats like Santorum are widely considered to be mainstream “conservatives”, the term “conservative” must be considered to mean, in effect, theocrat.

And the old-style “conservative” is now more at home in the arms of the libertarian community.

After you read the article below, you could also check out the discussion thread about the Santorum anti-right-to-privacy comments at DailyKos.

CNN.com - Transcript - scroll down for Aaron Brown’s interview of Rick Santorum
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BROWN: Coming up, Senator Rick Santorum on the culture, the cultural wars, on judges, stay at home moms, abortion, you name it, we’ll get to it. Senator Santorum is here. We’ll take a break first.

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BROWN: Do you think there’s a right to privacy in the Constitution?

SANTORUM: No — well, not the right to privacy as created under Roe v. Wade and all…

BROWN: Do you think there’s a right to privacy in the Constitution?

SANTORUM: I think there’s a right to unreasonable — to unreasonable search and seizure…

BROWN: For example, if you’d been a Supreme Court judge in Griswold versus Connecticut, the famous birth control case came up, which centered around whether there was a right to privacy. Do you believe that was correctly decided?

SANTORUM: No, I don’t. I write about it in the book. I don’t.

BROWN: The state of Connecticut had the right to ban birth control for a married couple.

SANTORUM: I think they were wrong. It was a bad law.

BROWN: But they had the right.

SANTORUM: They had the right. They had the right…

BROWN: Why would a conservative argue that government should interfere with that most personal decision?

SANTORUM: I didn’t. I said it was a bad law. And…

BROWN: But they had the right to make.

SANTORUM: They had the right to make it. Look, legislatures have the right to make mistakes and do really stupid things…