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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,663 posts)
Thu Jul 28, 2022, 06:19 AM Jul 2022

Ted Cruz Calls For Texas To Repeal Anti-Sodomy Law

Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

Ted Cruz Calls For Texas To Repeal Anti-Sodomy Law

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,” Cruz’s spokesman told The Dallas Morning News.

His remarks make Cruz the most prominent Texas Republican to call for the repeal of one of the state’s 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.

Read the full article.

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/ All this said, @tedcruz is not a state lawmaker and his remarks may not change what Republicans in the Legislature do.

They’ve long resisted efforts to repeal the law criminalizing gay.

@GovAbbott @DanPatrick @DadePhelan did not comment.
https://dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/07/27/ted-cruz-says-texas-should-repeal-ban-on-gay-sex/ #txlege

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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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Ted Cruz Calls For Texas To Repeal Anti-Sodomy Law (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2022 OP
Just as long as gays aren't legally married . . . . . no_hypocrisy Jul 2022 #1
Ted Cruz is a sick man. madaboutharry Jul 2022 #2
K&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t RKP5637 Jul 2022 #7
Hmm... Mike Nelson Jul 2022 #3
Might as well ban all ORAL SEX too.....Talking about it. ProudMNDemocrat Jul 2022 #4
I know..I feel like I've been violated.... LeftInTX Jul 2022 #11
I still wanna punch that face, even 1/2 covered with that stupid beard. 3Hotdogs Jul 2022 #5
I'll hold him. CurtEastPoint Jul 2022 #8
Pretty sure that under this law, technically any penetration that's not M/F intercourse Hugh_Lebowski Jul 2022 #6
Things that make ya go HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Ferrets are Cool Jul 2022 #9
Slimy Ted should not be discussing sex...ick.... LeftInTX Jul 2022 #10

madaboutharry

(41,287 posts)
2. Ted Cruz is a sick man.
Thu Jul 28, 2022, 06:31 AM
Jul 2022

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.

Mike Nelson

(10,259 posts)
3. Hmm...
Thu Jul 28, 2022, 06:31 AM
Jul 2022

... 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

(19,013 posts)
4. Might as well ban all ORAL SEX too.....Talking about it.
Thu Jul 28, 2022, 06:41 AM
Jul 2022

Last edited Thu Jul 28, 2022, 08:17 AM - Edit history (1)

Sex and Ted Cruz in the same sentence leaves a bad taste and smell afterwards.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
6. Pretty sure that under this law, technically any penetration that's not M/F intercourse
Thu Jul 28, 2022, 07:11 AM
Jul 2022

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.

LeftInTX

(29,836 posts)
10. Slimy Ted should not be discussing sex...ick....
Thu Jul 28, 2022, 01:30 PM
Jul 2022

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...

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