Ted Cruz Calls For Texas To Repeal Anti-Sodomy Law

July 28, 2022

The Dallas Morning News reports:

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz says Texas should repeal a decades-old state law that criminalizes gay sex. “Consenting adults should be able to do what they wish in their private sexual activity, and government has no business in their bedrooms,” Cruz’s spokesman told The Dallas Morning News.

His remarks make Cruz the most prominent Texas Republican to call for the repeal of one of the state’s longstanding anti-LGBT laws. State lawmakers in Texas banned “homosexual conduct” nearly 50 years ago. Known colloquially as the “sodomy ban,” the law has been unenforceable since the U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in 2003.

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/ All this said, @tedcruz is not a state lawmaker and his remarks may not change what Republicans in the Legislature do.

They’ve long resisted efforts to repeal the law criminalizing gay.

@GovAbbott @DanPatrick @DadePhelan did not comment.
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Ted Cruz says Texas should repeal ban on gay sex
AUSTIN — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz says Texas should repeal a decades-old state law that criminalizes gay sex. “Consenting adults should be able to do what they