Texas embarrassment Ted Cruz said something shockingly reasonable this week — or, at the very least, a spokesperson of his did.
The Cruz camp recently voiced the senator’s apparent support for repealing the archaic, still-on-the-books sodomy ban in Texas.
“Consenting adults should be able to do what they wish in their private sexual activity, and government has no business in their bedrooms,” the spokesperson told The Dallas Morning News.
This law and those like it around the country were all rendered unenforceable by the Supreme Court in its Lawrence v. Texas ruling in 2003, but have still remained dormant in their state’s crime codes.
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To be clear, the senator won’t be winning any GLAAD awards any time soon; he’s openly called the legalization of gay marriage “clearly wrong,” mocked personal pronouns, objected to trans athletes and trans youth, and racked up a laundry list of other anti-queer infractions.
However, in this one specific instance, he somehow cleared the unspeakably low bar that some of his conservative peers have run headfirst into.
For instance, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently made it clear that, given the chance, he would be completely “willing and able” to enforce sodomy laws in the state once again.
The repeal of currently inactive sodomy laws is especially prescient in the aftermath of the SCOTUS ruling on Roe v. Wade, which saw folks like Judge Clarence Thomas calling Lawrence ruling into question.
The repeal of Roe v. Wade and the threat its new precedent makes to rulings like Obergefell and Lawrence have led to legislative reevaluations across the nation; just recently, “homosexual material” was finally decriminalized in Pennsylvania after decades of flying under the radar in the state’s crime code.
The bipartisan support for repealing Texas’ sodomy ban is especially unexpected coming from a state whose GOP recently added platform language that referred to homosexuality as an “abnormal lifestyle choice” and continued to keep the state’s main queer conservative organization at more than an arm’s length.
As much as the state’s conservative legislature is in desperate need of critique, any support in striking down this 50-year-old anti-gay law is welcome.
WillParkinson
In other words, Rafael and his wife get up to kinky shit, and he doesn’t want anyone peeping into his bedroom.
chacha
Theres a reason teddy wants that gone. Wifey must be real happy with that. Now the world knows exactly what Rafael wants his wife to do. The entire world knows she won’t get pregnant, Again. Lol
Winsocki
Sodomy is defined as anal or oral copulation…. makes no distinction as to sex partners…in other words heterosexuals are committing and enjoying and exhalting sodomy every day. Take them to court.
v6origal97
This is his way of saying “we shouldn’t be voting on this bill, to codify rights, in congress,” all while supporting the overturn of the case law, which made it legal. “Let the states decide” is code for “let the racists and Christian nationalists make the choices for everyone else, who live in the states they dominate, legislatively.”
WillParkinson
This is a brilliant summation!
Jim
Well ya know what they say about a room full of monkey’s eventually producing Shakespear.
Fibre
Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s famous quote: “Government has nothing to do in people’s bedroom” comes from a legislature which has been adopted December 1967 in Canada being ahead of times. Copycat Ted Cruz and his Republican’s GOP team might not be geniuses but we never know when they’ll come up with another rabbit out of the hat using their costly and relentlessly scheming plans.
LumpyPillows
It is notable that Cruz did not personally say this. I don’t believe we’ll be hearing him say it.
CNY1983
this stinks of “my wifes hole is so big she cant feel my dick anymore so we have to have anal so she can tell there is something inside her”. Dont it? Heidi – try surgery to tighten it up.
Norm
I always thought Ted liked it up the ass.
ho
Oh Ted, you are working too much, better book another vacay to Cancun and please don’t come back
Invader7
Now what does this say about Back door Ted ?
Jimmynj
So he had sex with one of his aides and they are blackmailing him……