The Texas GOP's War on Gay Sex

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from Mother Jones:



Wed Apr. 13, 2011 12:01 AM PDT


Eight years after the Supreme Court deemed Texas' anti-sodomy statute unconstitutional, the state's penal code still lists "homosexual conduct" as a criminal offense—and Republican lawmakers are fighting to keep it that way.

A pair of identical bills that have been introduced in the Texas House would delete language from the state penal code making "deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the same sex" a misdemeanor offense. Under the proposals, a clause in the state's health and safety code that cites the criminal statute and states that homosexuality is "not an acceptable lifestyle" would also be repealed.

That is, if the legislature's Republican supermajority ever lets the bills come to a vote.

"Their silence is deafening," says Democratic State Rep. Jessica Farrar, who sponsored one of the proposals. "It's killing us. It's just as bad as if they were vocal." ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/lawrence-texas-homosexual-conduct-statute

[Angry Dragon]

1. sex within the Regressive Party is deviate