Texas AG Ken Paxton says he's "willing and able" bring back state ban on gay sex

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Source: Salon



"They won't stop till they roll back all of our civil rights," Paxton's Democratic challenger said
By Alex Henderson
Published June 30, 2022 2:30PM (EDT)


Civil libertarians have been warning that if Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, other civil liberties would be in danger as well. And sure enough, when the High Court announced, on Friday, June 24, that it was overturning Roe, Justice Clarence Thomas recommended that the Court "reconsider" some landmark right-to-privacy decisions on contraception and gay rights.

One of the cases that Thomas specially mentioned was Lawrence v. Texas, a 2003 ruling that struck down a sodomy law in the Lone Star State and, by extension, similar laws in other states. Now, far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is indicating that he is open to the possibility of criminalizing gay sex in Texas once again if Lawrence is ever overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sydney, Australia's 9News reports that when Paxton, during an interview, was asked if he would be willing to take a challenge to Lawrence v. Texas to the U.S. Supreme Court, he indicated that he would. And Paxton also indicated that he would enforce Texas' old sodomy law if Lawrence were overturned.......................


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When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its 6-3 Lawrence ruling in 2003, Thomas was among the three dissenters; the other two were the late Justice Antonin Scalia and then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The majority opinion in Lawrence was written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, a right-wing libertarian and Ronald Reagan appointee who was a strong supporter of right-to-privacy decisions — and Kennedy, in Lawrence, used the right-to-privacy framework that had been a part of not only Roe, but also, other U.S. Supreme Court decisions such as 1965's Griswold v. Connecticut (which established access to contraception as a constitutionally protected right for married couples), 1969's Stanley v. Georgia and 1972's Eisenstadt v. Baird (which expanded Griswold to unmarried couples)....................................

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2022/06/30/texas-ag-ken-paxton-says-hes-willing-and-able-bring-back-state-ban-on-gay_partner/

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When are the Texas folks going to say ENOUGH!!!





Texas AG Ken Paxton says he’s “willing and able” bring back state ban on gay sex

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images)

[emulatorloo]

1. What will happen in Texas if straight people commit "sodomy"?

[walkingman]

3. Your going to Huntsville and be re-educated.....Paxton must be defeated.

[unblock]

7. Depends. White people?

[emulatorloo]

11. I suppose it is absurd to hope Paxton has a sex tape.

[SouthernDem4ever]

57. I was wondering how he is going to avoid his own law

He will have to stick to self-pleasure only.

[SCantiGOP]

31. I remember that being discussed years ago

While the law was clearly intended to target - and only applied to - gay sex, technically a married heterosexual couple having oral or anal sex would be guilty under the sodomy laws of most states.

[milestogo]

2. Why?

[Skittles]

8. for the same reason the SC is rolling back rights

BECAUSE THEY CAN

[paleotn]

14. In Jebusland, anything remotely fun is out quickly outlawed....

You'd think these people would have gotten a clue from all the fall out when the Puritans banned freaking Christmas. A Christian celebration, no less, that was much too fun and frivolous for super duper, special Christians like Oliver Cromwell and his merry band of god bothering assholes. Lucky for England the immense wanker soon died and the monarchy was restored. One of Charles II's first acts was to have Cromwell's body exhumed, hung at Tyburn gallows, decapitated and old Ollie's head displayed on a spike at Westminster. Payback for killing his dad no less, but generally for Cromwell being a gigantic dick. Maybe Texans can do the same to Paxton. Just don't wait until he croaks. It's much more fun when they're still wiggling.

Oh...did I mention I despise these people?

[Oneironaut]

34. Do most people care if they step on ants?

If you've been lead to believe or deluded yourself into believing that certain classes of human beings are no better, then, you'd step on them too.

[alwaysinasnit]

4. I wonder when the Log Cabin Republicans will say "enough."

[leftieNanner]

5. You beat me to it. Nt

[emulatorloo]

6. I hope they stand up soon and denounce the Republican party

[paleotn]

16. Tax cuts....

and none of this stuff supposedly affects people with money. Wonder how many thought that when Gilead was setting up shop?

I've often wondered how they reconcile the fact that since the 80's their party has been run by people who'd like nothing better than to literally burn the Log Cabin Republicans at the stake. That kind of soullessness is lost on me.

[NullTuples]

30. Only once the rest of their privilege gets revoked. And being mostly white men, that'll be a while

[GoneOffShore]

56. They'll issue a statement that they are 'concerned'.

[ck4829]

63. Good question

[alphafemale]

66. I think they may be like Stephen in Django

Loyal to the beloved Massa to the end.

[sop]

9. These rightwing christians have lost their souls,

and their minds if they think people can be forced back into the closet.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Is Paxton helping Abbot eliminate rape in TX? Or is that all solved now?

Is Paxton helping Abbot eliminate rape in TX?

Or is that all solved now?

[Traildogbob]

12. Of course

That’s been eliminated. Next they gonna stop child slaughter. We got to be patient. If an unwanted child is forced to be born, just shoot it in self defense. Or leave a loaded gun in the crib. No charges. COST of freedom.

[Mr.Bill]

13. He's full of shit.

If he is "willing and able", why hasn't he done it already?

[Orrex]

15. Just days ago I was scolded...

for saying that we are fast approaching the point of "by any means necessary."

Certain cheerleaders found it necessary to admonish me for advocating for murder (which I didn't do), while they also brush off any suggestion that we're in the middle of a real and worsening catastrophe.

And next year, when the extremist Christofascist SCOTUS rules that state legislatures have absolute authority in their states' elections, the republic will die forever, because we'll see permanent, unbreakable Republikkkan majorities at every level and in every branch of government.

Perhaps the cheerleaders could be so kind as to scold me again because my glasses aren't sufficiently rose-colored.

[MarcA]

23. There are pearl clutchers here that would even put Collins to shame. n/t

[ck4829]

45. We really are.

[CrispyQ]

49. "No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up." Lily Tomlin -nt

[LudwigPastorius]

17. In any non-shithole state, that piece of garbage Paxton would be in prison.

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How about this, Kenny? You don't like gay sex? Don't have any!

Leave everybody else the fuck alone.

[bringthePaine]

18. ha! he's half right - better than usual 🖕

[TheBlackAdder]

19. "Gay Sex" but what about heterosexual sodomy?

[peppertree]

21. That'd be ok - as long as it's between two consenting Republicans

[TheBlackAdder]

24. Texas -- The state that outlawed bestiality in 2017. Yes, only 4 years ago!

.

That's why it has to be between two Republicans, because normal
people would be cited with bestiality if they humped a Texas Republican.

.

[peppertree]

32. That would explain it

[SouthernDem4ever]

58. I can understand the beastiality thing

how do we know if the animal consented or is enjoying it?

[TheBlackAdder]

59. They're Republicans

.

They've demonstrated a constant desire to take it up the butt or get fucked in general.

.

[Joinfortmill]

20. Idiots. Watch big business pull out of Texas. With their crummy electric grid they should go now.

[peppertree]

22. Rick Perry must be sweatin' a little just about now

And not on account of the Texas heat.

[BlueIdaho]

25. Maybe Texas seceding from the Union ain't such a bad thing

We could even build a wall to keep them out.

[question everything]

26. And he will see all the Californians that were attracted to Texas leaving in droves

No, not because all of them are gay, but because this is not the climate that they feel comfortable working and conducting business.

[vercetti2021]

27. Fuck him

my girlfriend and I are in a same sex relationship. What ya gonna do about it motherfucker? We'll do whatever we want. Marry if we want. Fuck if we want. Fuck your religion

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. Why?

Has he been tempted to hang out in gay bars and public washrooms?

What happened to live and let live?

[ZERTErYNOthe]

29. Sodomy Laws

I grew up in western PA, son of a very progressive couple, politically active, in local and state politics. My family also rented housing in our college town. Initially they only rented to groups of girls, but eventually to boys as well (that didn't always go so well). This was for large houses for students. They also had some smaller places for families and couples. One rule they had in their leases was standard boilerplate that 'no laws could be violated on the premises'. This included sodomy laws (Oral sex is considered to be sodomy), so unfortunately unmarried couples could not rent from us. Roommates, however, regardless of gender, were allowed.....

Other landlords in our town used these laws to discriminate against prospective tenants, and our family received a lot of backlash for renting to single mothers, unwed couples, and interracial couples (technically legal, and rare, but this was a time when Italians were considered to be immigrants and lesser races).

I thought that was all behind us. 50 years later, I am seeing it all again.

[Beaverhausen]

33. Is he up for re-election this year?

If so who is his Dem challenger?

[NullTuples]

37. Rochelle Garza

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/24/texas-attorney-general-democrat/

[Beaverhausen]

50. Thank you. Do you think she has any chance to win?

[NullTuples]

51. The magic 8 ball pollsters I've found that have numbers for the race say "not likely'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

35. Willie Nelson video that has Paxton shitting bricks

[sorcrow]

41. Awesome

Thanks for sharing.

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

[Skittles]

61. Willie is so fucking cool

yes INDEED

[Initech]

36. Can we just give the Christian Taliban their own city state to ruin?

Because I'm seriously getting really tired of these fuckheads. I want to live in the United States. I don't want to live in a Christofascist authoritarian theocracy. Fuck that shit.

[Scrivener7]

43. The real Sharia law raises its ugly head.

[Lonestarblue]

48. If there's a vacant island somewhere, the US could buy it and give it to these idiots.

We’d be a lot better off if a lot of them left. Since that’s virtually impossible, perhaps we really do need to consider splitting the country. There are all kinds of enormous complications, including Democratic cities in red states, but we have entered uncharted territory toward total fascist rule and I’d rather see the US separated than to see another bloody civil war. And bloody it would be. In 1861, people had muskets, rifles, and pistols firing few rounds. The assault weapons of today are far more deadly.

I see this Fall’s election as truly our last stand. We obviously need to hold the House majority and gain at least three new seats. I say three because I remember the polls from South Carolina that had Harrison up around 12 points over Graham and he lost. Warnock is up around 10 points, for now, over Walker, but we cannot trust Georgia. Ryan has a chance in Ohio over the idiot Vance, as does Fetterman in PA. Demmings is neck and neck with Little Marco, but Florida is an untrustworthy state in the hands of rabid Republican cheats.

Where’s our third one? That’s where I’ll also donate. Can Ron Johnson be beaten in Wisconsin? I just talked with a friend in Iowa who said that Grassley is a cinch in spite of his age because Republicans have made no secret that he is merely running to win so he can retire and the governor can appoint his grandson.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

38. Ken Paxton needs to be disbarred and convicted of securities fraud

[Kid Berwyn]

65. "Legal Problems" since 2017.

Yet the crook not only remains free, he does the dirty work of Texas Just Us.

[cloudboy07]

39. Hot wheels Abbott axe man ! Abbott says jump , ken says how high ?

[Scrivener7]

42. Small government doesn't fit into people's bedrooms. These people are ridiculous.

[ck4829]

44. ...

[The Jungle 1]

46. How will they control the American Bison.

50% of the time young bison are mounting the same sex. In America right now. How can this be? I guess that is why they stopped making those nickles.
There are hundreds of gay critters. Bruce Bagemihl, informs us the number is 450.
The christofascist believe God is against homosexuality. If God is omnipotent then they are WRONG. Or maybe he made a few mistakes. It was a hectic 7 days. Oh wait we still have the omnipotent thing.

[thenelm1]

47. Ahh, Ken Paxton, the top law officer in the State of Texas while facing his own...

criminal charges. Charges which certainly seem to be, not even, slow walking they're through the legal system. Nothing hinky there.

"The state case and the federal one involve Mr. Paxton’s work in 2011 promoting and recruiting investors for a technology company, Servergy Inc. Federal officials accused Mr. Paxton of encouraging and pressuring investors to invest in Servergy while failing to disclose that he was being compensated by the company. The investors included several of Mr. Paxton’s friends and a fellow lawmaker.

Court documents filed by the S.E.C. claim that Mr. Paxton raised $840,000 from the investors and received 100,000 shares of stock in return, but never disclosed his commissions. Mr. Paxton told investigators that he accepted the shares as a gift from the company’s founder, but the S.E.C. claimed that the stock was actually a sales commission he failed to disclose."

[Bayard]

52. Paxton still owes John Fetterman $1M.

And like that witch hunt for voter fraud, he best start looking around his own party first. Or, is he only talking about gay Dems?

[Aristus]

53. What these hyper-masculine cowboy-wannabees seem to forget

is how all those lonesome cowboys kept each other warm on those long, cold frontier nights...

If you're going to lean into your state's heritage, guys, you really need to lean into it...

[Initech]

54. Ken Paxton is an absolute fucking garbage waste of space.

He's a member of the Christian Taliban. Keep your fucking church out of my government, you psychopaths!

[newdayneeded]

55. Look at his pic there

Now picture a dimly lit room, a 24" monitor in front of him, and gay porn reflecting off his forehead. Yep, you know you can see it.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

60. Ugly blob of mayonnaise wants to be "tough on crime"?

Here's one for you then, Kenny Boy... Arrest yourself, you goddamned crook. Just as I don't want to hear lectures on marriage from Drumpf or Limbaugh... Just as I wouldn't want to hear Lady Gaga tell me to wear practical shoes... I sure don't want to hear from a lifelong criminal that laws should be obeyed.

While you're at it, why don't you stay the fuck out of people's bedrooms, Kenny? Sure is funny how thugs like you are more than happy to take away people's privacy, but sure expect yours to be respected.

Fuck off, hypocrite. Go choke on a cowpie.

[DFW]

62. He may be willing

He will never be able.

[yardwork]

64. There's no such thing as "gay sex." Straight people have sex, too.

The previous Texas law, that was struck down by a long-ago Supreme Court that was thought at the time to be fairly conservative, outlawed sex acts that are not at all unusual among straight people. Bill Clinton was a famous participant, for instance.

Of course the police in Texas didn't barge into straight people's homes in the middle of the night to arrest them for having oral sex. They only did that to gay people.