From the Opinion Journal Best of the Web today:
Civil laws prohibiting consensual sodomy were an anachronism, and the country is well rid of them. Yet we’d say the court got it right in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), when it ruled that the U.S. Constitution is no bar to such laws. At the time the court decided Bowers, 24 states had sodomy laws; by yesterday only 13 did. By short-circuiting the political process, which seemed to be moving in the right direction anyway, the Supreme Court took away a little bit of Americans’ democratic freedom.
Not So Fast 