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Related: About this forumTed Cruz Calls For Texas To Repeal Anti-Sodomy Law
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July 28, 2022
The Dallas Morning News reports:
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz says Texas should repeal a decades-old state law that criminalizes gay sex. Consenting adults should be able to do what they wish in their private sexual activity, and government has no business in their bedrooms, Cruzs spokesman told The Dallas Morning News.
His remarks make Cruz the most prominent Texas Republican to call for the repeal of one of the states longstanding anti-LGBT laws. State lawmakers in Texas banned homosexual conduct nearly 50 years ago. Known colloquially as the sodomy ban, the law has been unenforceable since the U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in 2003.
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Theyve long resisted efforts to repeal the law criminalizing gay.
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Ted Cruz says Texas should repeal ban on gay sex
AUSTIN U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz says Texas should repeal a decades-old state law that criminalizes gay sex. Consenting adults should be able to do what they
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no_hypocrisy
(48,628 posts)madaboutharry
(41,287 posts)His cravenness and duplicity are pathological. He is a man completely owned by ambition. He believes in nothing but his own quest for power. He is a man without a soul. Great authors throughout history have written about men like Ted Cruz. They are hated by everyone, even their friends.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Mike Nelson
(10,259 posts)... looking carefully at his statement, "Consenting adults should be able to do what they wish in their private sexual activity, and government has no business in their bedrooms," he may be considering a more general look at the sodomy law. It was for all couples, not just gay couples. Anyone can be a sodomite... They really were against any sex act that would not produce a child.
ProudMNDemocrat
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Sex and Ted Cruz in the same sentence leaves a bad taste and smell afterwards.
LeftInTX
(29,836 posts)3Hotdogs
(13,343 posts)CurtEastPoint
(19,136 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Is considered 'Sodomy' ... so blow jobs qualify as well, and possibly cunnilingus (if you're doing it right )
And plenty of M/F couples engage in both oral and anal sex.
So it's not really a law banning 'gay sex', per se.
Although I'd imagine it was rarely brought to bear against M/F couples, I think it famously was one time in the early 80's iirc. Maybe misremembering though.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,935 posts)LeftInTX
(29,836 posts)Makes me want to vomit...
What's going on in his head????
Or somewhere else???
Yes, the law should be repealed....
But Ted discussing any kind sex makes me want to puke!
Maybe he should silently lobby the Texas lege to get them to repeal it instead.
Maybe his voice is form of sodomy...ick...