Texas GOP platform: criminalize gay marriage and ban sodomy, outlaw strip clubs and pornography

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Aliyah Shahid
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, June 22nd 2010, 12:36 PM

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The Texas Republican Party gives a whole new meaning to the word conservative.

The GOP there has voted on a platform that would ban oral and anal sex. It also would give jail sentences to anyone who issues a marriage license to a same-sex couple (even though such licenses are already invalid in the state).

“We oppose the legalization of sodomy,” the platform says. “We demand that Congress exercise its authority granted by the U.S. Constitution to withhold jurisdiction from the federal courts from cases involving sodomy.”

The Lone Star state initially passed a law barring sodomy in 1860. Violators faced anywhere from five to 15 years in prison. The ban was overturned in 2003.

In addition, the platform says that homosexuality “tears at the fabric of society, contributes to the breakdown of the family unit and leads to the spread of dangerous communicable diseases.”

It also states that homosexuality must not be presented as an acceptable “alternative” lifestyle in public schools and “family” should not be redefined to include homosexual couples.

The 25-page proposal, presented last week as a guide for the state GOP over the next two years, includes other measures including outlawing “sexually oriented businesses” like strip clubs and banning “all pornography.”

so this is the exchange on a friends FB wall that shows me how many stupid people there are still out there for me to bitch about!

ME: well, Arizona is losing a lot of revenue by running out both legal and illegal immigrants. they are losing clinics, schools and business. laying off teachers, cutting programs the housing market is suffering...etc.. they have shot themselves in the foot. Now let's watch Texas screw themselves out of revenue when all the GLBT folks pack up and leave Texas. Think I'll pop some popcorn and pour me a coke now, this could get interesting.


Stupid Friend #1: zero loss in losing non-taxpaying illegals that suck off infrastructure. zero.

(hey stupid! My comment was a comparison, your comment should have been about the new anti gay, anti anal sex, anti blow job law!)


Stupid Friend #2: Rock on Walt! (simply because she has nothing of value to add.)


Stupid Friend #1: and I shall. ;)

Me: Really? because of Arizona's racial profiling law, Arizona is having to lay off teachers in the schools where these people are pulling their children by the hundreds! They are looking at closing schools, and rural clinics. They are both losing thousands in funding. Arizona is also seeing problems in the housing market, foreclosures on the homes people bought cost the banks a lot of money. Businesses are seeing a 30% dip in revenue. Arizona business, housing market, banks, schools, and clinics are all suffering and feeling the financial crunch. I hope they continue to slide down the potty and are a model for the rest of the country showing that they do indeed contribute more than they take.

now, back to the Original Post, why is it anyone's business what goes on behind someone's closed bedroom door? How are they going to enforce these messed up laws? Walt, I hope you don't like Blow jobs, otherwise you may find yourself in jail according to this law! They are not just dictating what gays can do in their bedrooms, this affects straight people as well!

I really do not see them closing strip clubs since the majority of men in government frequent these businesses. As far as banning porn goes well, there will be a lot of priest, preachers and church going folks in your jails. Studies have shown from IP logged addresses that it is church going folk who regularly access porno websites.

Also, how are Gay folks non tax paying illegals?! WTH?! Every gay person I know pays their taxes and spends money in their city, state, country! If all the gays left Texas, they would lose a lot of their revenue as well as government officials. I was just comparing the rapid decline of Arizona's revenue to what may be the rapid decline of Texas revenue if the gay folk do the same as legal and illegal folks are doing in Arizona. BTW, LEGAL immigrants are leaving Arizona as well. They can feel the atmosphere of hate this new law has created and are no longer comfortable there.I am assuming you are a christian,did your Jesus teach you to love your neighbor but with restrictions to skin color, nationality, origin, and religion? I thought the story was LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR PERIOD. To be a christian is to be christ like. I do not remember Christ teaching to have an attitude of hate toward their fellow man.

Yea, you keep rockin on there Walt! today they tell gays what they can and can not do in their bedroom, now straight folks are being told they can't engage in anal sex or oral sex, next thing you know you will be told what positions you can and can not use within the privacy on your own bedroom. you might think about this law the next time you want your gal to give you a BJ there Walt!



Now I ask you, what kind of dumb ass respects or even thinks this law can be good or useful? First and foremost, I do not want a lawmaker to tell me what I can and can not do in my bedroom. My husband and I can decide that on our own fine without outside interference. How are they going to enforce this law anyways? you have no proof of what one does in their bedroom. I know couples who are celibate due to medical reasons. I know gay men who are in relationships who are celibate!

We know this law is aimed at the GLBT community which you should know I stand behind 100% they pay taxes, they are first rate citizens, they are my brothers and sisters. I believe in equal rights for ALL!! now, it may be aimed at the GLBT community, but if you read the law, it also targets the heterosexual community as well. Hey, what straight woman doesn't like a little cunnilingus? what straight man doesn't like a blow job? well be careful, they are now treading into your territory! No matter how you feel about Gay rights, if you stand by and do not support their rights, the government will take them away, then they will come after YOU! Next thing you know we are back to missionary position and anything else will be punishable by jail time.

I fully expect this law to be repealed by ACLU. If not you can bet it will be repealed the first time we see the Governor of Texas of some other government official caught giving signals in a bathroom stall, or some other compromising position that boots him out of the closet.