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Could you show me where it says that he want's to declare being homosexual a crime?
Yeah, he wants gay marriage to be illegal, but that's hardly the same thing.
http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/08/06/Protests_Over_Perrys_Prayer_Event/http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/flashback-rick-perry-supports-criminalizing-gay-sexHe wants
being gay,
having gay sex, being gay a criminal offense. If anyone says "you can be celibate and not be criminal under this," then that person can just consider doing that themselves before they talk to me.
Holy shit do you realize what this means? This means your only defense to this criminal statute if you were gay would be to somehow prove your virginity.... This isn't really possible and even if it is just wow. You should never have to do that and I shouldn't have to say you shouldn't have to do that.
"So what exactly has Perry done? Well, for one,
he is (still) a supporter of the Texas "homosexual conduct" statute, an archaic law that made it a crime for two consenting, unrelated adults to have sex if they were of the same gender. The law was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the landmark 2002 case Lawrence v. Texas, but, despite repeated efforts, Texas has yet to formally repeal the statute. When Perry was asked about the Lawrence case in 2002, he defended the anti-sodomy statute: "I think our law is appropriate that we have on the books."
He wrote about the case in his 2011 book Fed Up, too, citing the Lawrence decision as the product of "nine oligarchs in robes" and an example of what's wrong with our judicial system. And last spring, when Perry ran for his third full term as governor, he did so on a state GOP platform that exlicitly stated "we oppose the legalization of sodomy.""
He is directly opposed to everything Lawrence v. Texas stood for when it finally made it so "Sodomy" or "being gay and having sex" wasn't a crime. He is currently the governor of Texas and under his governorship, the state has failed to repeal the law though the supreme court has declared it unconstitutional.... He was the key force to the State trying to defend the law banning gays from ever having sex under penalty of law. This isn't history, this only happened in 2003 and he's still fighting this fight today.... Bastard wrote a book on it...! His homophobia is part of the reason he wants to rewrite the constitution to weaken the federal courts. "Checks and Balances" needs to check this idiot....
Consensual relations between two adults.... This bastard has the audacity to say he wants smaller government with a straight face but he wants to have 1984 big brother in my bedroom...? Stay out of my bedroom! Go to hell swiftly Mr. Perry; hit every rock on the way down while incinerating in agony, please.
Rick Perry is the GLBT Strom Thurmond:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_ThurmondOne day Rick Perry will get sick and die and I will drink to that day.
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