TX GOP platform: Re-criminalize sodomy, make gay marriage a felony

[Miniar]

TX GOP platform: Re-criminalize sodomy, make gay marriage a felony

Texas Republicans are a conservative lot. Still, it's difficult to imagine mainstream GOP voters demanding their neighbors be jailed for engaging in a little hanky-panky behind closed doors.

Nevertheless, the state's Republican party has voted on a platform [PDF link] by which their candidates will stand, and it includes the reinstatement of laws banning sodomy:

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[tekla]

They also want to close the strip clubs, which is like third after oil and cattle in the state economy.  But even better the person running for the GOP in the Nevada Senate race (the Nevada of Las Vegas and Reno and casinos) supports prohibition.

[spacial]

Presumably they also want to enforce that law which bans criticism of the meat industry.

I believe that some TV chat show hostess was prosecuted under it for saying something about burgers. Oprah I think it was.

Nice to see Texans haven't lost their talent for the ridiculous.

Personally I'm still laughing at their constitutional ammendment which made it compulsary for children to use pencils in school.
YeeHaw

(edit, strike through probably didn't happen and was an urban myth. I apologise for making the comment and to any Texans who may have been offended. )

[Lukas-H]

Personally I'm still laughing at their constitutional ammendment which made it compulsary for children to use pencils in school

I'm kind of curious about this. Could you find me an internet article that talks about it? I just want to show it to a friend, lol.

[TheAetherealMeadow]

Holy!!! I really hope nobody is taking these crazies seriously, especially with some of the other platforms they have. What's next, banning laughter?

[darklady]

Principles include for example: a marriage between a natural woman and a natural  man.

[tekla]

Texas has threatened to succeed from the Union and the rest of us can't wait.

[Shana A]

Texas has threatened to succeed from the Union and the rest of us can't wait.

Except for the folks I know in Austin...

Z

[spacial]

I'm kind of curious about this. Could you find me an internet article that talks about it? I just want to show it to a friend, lol.

I'm going to have to apologise here. The story was doing the rounds in the 90s. I confess, I've never checked it and probably should have.

I've done a search and can't find any evidence for it. 

Still, it seems plausable at the time.
Post Merge: June 23, 2010, 08:03:12 AM
I don't seem to be doing too well with my American gossip.

I've just checked for any evidence of Oprah Winfrey being taken to court in Texas for criticising meat.

I was certain of this. I recall the clip on the TV News and the later follow up of some constitutional court dismissing the charges because of freedom of speech of somthing like that.

But I can't find any evidence for it. So must withdraw it as well.

I do apologise. It was not my intention to mislead, rather to show impressions.

[tekla]

Your half right, the pencil deal not true, the Oprah Winfrey deal is.

After six years, escalating legal fees and a celebrated trial in the heart of Texas cattle country, a federal judge has dismissed a lingering lawsuit accusing Oprah Winfrey of maligning the beef industry.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=hzV&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=oprah+texas+beef&aq=1&aqi=g6&aql=&oq=oprah+texas+&gs_rfai=

[TheAetherealMeadow]

They would probably crucify me if I ever set foot in Texas, since I am trans and a vegetarian too! 

[tekla]

They would probably crucify me if I ever set foot in Texas, since I am trans and a vegetarian too! 

Except, as noted, in Austin.

[darklady]

They would do that in many more states. Some very blue/liberal states making possible expections.

[Michelle.]

Nah, in America one gets weird looks and odd questions everywhere. When one is a vegetarian.

The whole trans thing...deep down even the Texans are accepting at heart.

[darklady]

Tell that story for post-op TX-transwomen whom in most cases cannot change their papers to female because of Littleton vs. Prange. Tell that story to TX-transgendered youth. How accepping TX is at heart.

[TheAetherealMeadow]

Even though Texas is known for being conservative, I'm pretty sure it's not that bad. The people in the news article are just a bunch of loonies. After all, Texas has quite a lot of large cities like Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, etc. and more often than not larger cities are quite accepting. And who can forget that good ol' Southern hospitality?

[tekla]

And who can forget that good ol' Southern hospitality?

Well Texas can.  Texas is south, but it sure as hell ain't Southern.  It's Texas.  For better (on occasion) or worse (the government) it's not southern, it's just Texas.

[Cindy]

Is it another urban myth that eating lamb in Texas is illegal, or at least frowned upon? Except of course in Austin (what is the reference to Austin )

Cindy

[tekla]

Austin Texas is one of the coolest places in the world.  It's like a little bit of San Francisco in the middle of redneck hell.  Now, there are lots of people who really love Texas, but they HATE Austin.  And the reverse is also true. 

And lamb is OK, veggie not so much, vegan, get a rope.

[Kaelin]

If it has to go to a ballot, I don't think a majority of voters would support this kind of measure, especially since it also affects mixed-sex couples.  Unless Republicans start to look a lot better than they do now and get an unusually high turnout, a bill this far-reaching isn't going to appeal to the median Texan voter.

And, you know, it'd probably be ruled unconstitutional, just like the old "sodomy" law.