But while lawmakers filed bills to do that last session, when Phelan controlled the body, none came up for debate in the House. Senator John Cornyn did not reply to the DMN’s queries about the law.) Before he became the Speaker of the Texas House, Republican Dade Phelan indicated in 2019 that he also supported efforts to repeal the law. (Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, and U.S. Yet, nearly two decades later, Cruz is a near-singular voice among prominent Texas Republicans to call for a repeal of the sodomy law. If the Supreme Court were to overturn Lawrence, state attorney general Ken Paxton has said he would defend the old state law.Įven at the time of the Lawrence ruling, 59 percent of Americans agreed that consensual gay sex should be legal, while 37 percent supported criminalization. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion. Though currently unenforceable, the sodomy law has become freshly relevant after Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Lawrence ruling should be revisited in his concurring opinion on Dobbs v. Texas that ruled it unconstitutional, along with similar sodomy bans in thirteen other states.
The Texas law has remained on the books despite the landmark 2003 Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Voicing the senator’s support for repealing a 1973 Texas law that criminalized gay sex, Cruz’s spokesperson told the Dallas Morning News that his boss believes “Consenting adults should be able to do what they wish in their private sexual activity, and government has no business in their bedrooms.” Supreme Court ruled on a case about the right to same-sex marriage, Ted Cruz told a conservative evangelical audience to pray that the justices did not “engage in an act of naked and lawless judicial activism.” Things have changed just a bit in the seven years since, and on Wednesday Cruz went to his favorite forum, the mainstream media, to clarify what naked acts he considers lawful. July 27, 2022: Ted Becomes a Strange Bedfellow of Those Pushing to Overturn Texas’s Sodomy Law September 29, 2021: Cruz Tries to Dunk on Libs by Backing Anti-Vax NBA Stars.October 8, 2021: Cruz Is Still Not the Zodiac Killer.October 22, 2021: Cruz’s Joke Bill Finds Rare Cross-Aisle Buy-in.October 28, 2021: Cruz Weighs In on When It’s Okay to Make Nazi Salutes.November 7, 2021: Cruz Offers His Secession Checklist, but Still Sees Hope for America.November 8, 2021: Cruz Takes on Big Bird.December 23, 2021: Cruz Recalls the Good Old Days of His Failed 2016 Presidential Campaign.January 4, 2022: Cruz Contemplates Impeaching Biden.January 7, 2022: Cruz Has a Rocky Interview with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson.February 2, 2022: Cruz Employs a New Supreme Court Standard.March 24, 2022: Cruz Asks if He Could Be an Asian Man.March 28, 2022: Revisiting Cruz’s Role in Trying to Overturn the Election.April 5, 2022: Ted Cruz Slams Due Process for Political Points.
April 21, 2022: The Senator Speaks His Disney Slash-Fiction Fantasies.June 23, 2022: The Senator Speculates on Merrick Garland’s Response to Dobbs Opinion.June 29, 2022: Ted Cruz Reignites His Feud With Muppets.July 27, 2022: Ted Becomes a Strange Bedfellow of Those Pushing to Overturn Texas’s Sodomy Law.So we’ve created the Ted Cruz Watch, to help readers track the senator’s latest doings and his whereabouts-be they in D.C., Texas, or, say, Cancun. From Sam Houston to Lyndon Johnson to Ann Richards to Ron Paul, the characters who’ve occupied high office in this state are famous-and infamous-for their big personalities and the often unusual ways they have of saying and doing things. The political history of Texas is one of colorful, headline-grabbing politicians.
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