Texas GOP wants to make marrying gays a felony, reinstate sodomy ban.
I thought Republicans wanted less intrusion by government into our personal lives?
Oh right. They lie about that too:
The Texas Republican party has doubled down on their state’s same-sex marriage ban in their continued war against LGBT rights. Just months after the Republican state Attorney General challenged a same-sex couple’s request to divorce, the state GOP is pushing even further in their new 2010 platform. Taking a page from the heinous Ugandan anti-homosexuality bill, the GOP both wants to criminalize marrying a same-sex couple and reinstate a sodomy ban. From the platform:
Marriage Licenses – We support legislation that would make it a felony to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple and for any civil official to perform a marriage ceremony for such. […]
Texas Sodomy Statutes – We oppose the legalization of sodomy. We demand that Congress exercise its authority granted by the U.S. Constitution to withhold jurisdiction from the federal courts from cases involving sodomy.
Basically, if someone were to help a gay couple get married, “the GOP would like to see that person serve mandatory jail time.”
This shouldn’t surprise anyone who followed LGF’s coverage of Uganda’s death penalty bill for gay people, given that it was inspired, guided, supported, and approved of by various American evangelicals.
See: American Evangelicals Enabled Uganda’s Death Penalty for Gays
Video: A Religious Right ‘Nuclear Bomb’ in Uganda
and especially
US Anti-Abortion Group Trying to Sabotage Kenya’s Constitution
The ideas they advocate in Africa are exactly what they’d like to enact here.