Ted Cruz says Texas should repeal its now-defunct anti-sodomy law

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, probably the most socially conservative Texans serving in Congress, advised The Dallas Morning News that Texas should repeal its now-dormant law that bans homosexual intercourse.

“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 spokesperson advised the newspaper.

The Texas Legislature handed the law a long time in the past. It hasn’t been enforceable since 2003, when the U.S. Supreme Court determined in a landmark ruling that it violated the Constitution. There have been common makes an attempt by Democrats to repeal the law since, however they’ve repeatedly failed within the Legislature.

But questions over the way forward for that precedent have surfaced after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. Both the 1973 abortion case and the homosexual intercourse case, generally known as Lawrence v. Texas, had been determined based mostly on the concept of a constitutional proper to privateness.

The courtroom’s overturning of Roe prompted some to wonder if different circumstances based mostly on that privateness proper can be subsequent — and conservative Justice Clarence Thomas had urged that the courtroom rethink the Lawrence precedent.

The courtroom’s landmark ruling legalizing homosexual marriage was determined beneath comparable reasoning. In latest weeks, Cruz has reiterated his opposition to that call. He additionally steadily introduced up his opposition to that ruling whereas campaigning for president that 12 months in socially conservative states like Iowa and South Carolina.

Recently on his podcast, Cruz reiterated his perception that the choice was “clearly wrong” on the grounds that states, not the enacting of a federal customary, should govern homosexual marriage coverage.

Even so, he mentioned he didn’t assume the courtroom would overturn that ruling.

“You’ve got a ton of people who have entered into gay marriages and it would be more than a little chaotic for the court to do something that somehow disrupted those marriages that have been entered into in accordance with the law,” Cruz said. “I think that would be a factor that would, would counsel restraint, that the court would be concerned about. But to be honest, I don’t think this court has any appetite for overturning any of these decisions.”

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