"We Oppose the Legalization of Sodomy"--Texas GOP
It disgusts me when I hear backwards-thinking crazies talking about how gays are going to hell, and picketing soldiers funerals saying that the reason they died was because of gays in America.
It horrifies me when people attack and kill queer people because of their sexuality or gender identity.
It is frustrating to continuously hear mainstream conservatives avoid the question of whether or not they personally believe homosexuality is choice, and claim that they are not homophobic but believe that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.
It infuriates me when small groups of politicians and conservative citizens rally together to make it illegal for homosexuals (and by extension, single parents as well) to do something like adopt a child.
But I am sorry to say that I never, never expected to hear a mainstream political party in a state openly come out and say that they want to overturn Lawerence v. Texas (the court case that made homosexuality legal throughout the entire united states), because they honestly believed that homosexuality was so awful and terrible an act that it should be made criminal once again.
Yes, Texas Republicans--not one or just a few, but the entire Texas Republican party--is planning on fighting the federal government to allow them to make homosexuality a criminal offense in the state of Texas once again. It is because they believe homosexuality "tears at the fabric of society, contributes to the breakdown of the family unit, and leads to the spread of dangerous, communicable diseases." Because that isn't thirty-year-old mindset at all.
And also of course, because God hates fags: "Homosexual behavior is contrary to the fundamental, unchanging truths that have been ordained by God, recognized by our country’s founders, and shared by the majority of Texans."
At a time when there is oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, where in the longest war in American history, currently in an economic recession, the prime focus of the Republican Party is making sure everyone is only kissing the opposite sex?
Seriously, Texas? Unbelievable.