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They might as well ban oral sex while they're at it. Wait, that's already in the platform. I'm not kidding.
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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.
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Jun 24, 2010 at 11:56 PM
Reader Comments (10)
Not really, it would be more like infighting...
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/030108dnpollogcabin.bd782ca.html
What could be next? Maybe exile Atheists, Muslims, Buddhists and all others who aren't God fearing Baptist Texans?
Seems like conservative insanity is alive and well in Texas
Because they want to tell everyone what to do and believe when they can't even take care of their own shit, as in the link above. Everyone wants to be a hypocrite, and tell others what is good for them.
I know what is good for me, hence I do not give a rats ass about the great grocery store/ pizza ordering fake hunter/ gatherer crowd. They have all kinds of grand schemes of how to live off me that I do not buy into...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbtZDXvg8Yg
but outlawing pornography, strip clubs and sex acts is just plain loony...
From the fall of the Roman empire in the 5th century until the American and French revolutions, Europe was a theocracy where kings struggled to share power with the Catholic Church which kept the masses of people in total ignorance and superstition.
Talk about homophobia. The Catholic Church regularly burned people at the stake for believing (saying) that God was only one and not three, not to mention for practicing forms of sodomy that we can't even imagine today. ("Having intercourse with chickens and diverse farm animals."
The American revolution was conceived mostly by intellectuals and merchants who wanted to be free of the rule of the English king and the House of Lords, but most Americans remained religious.
But from the beginning America has never been under the rule of one single church such as the Catholic Church so we escaped the fate of being a theocracy and for the same reason today there is little danger that the religions will unite to form a Christian theocracy. (Mormons, Catholics and Baptists united?)
But stranger things have happened in the past.
The American oligarchy has made a Faustian bargain with the superstitious and mindless American "moral majority" in order to keep liberals (intellectuals) out of power. What's happening in Texas is just blow back.