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Do Republicans Want Being Gay To Be a Crime?
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30 seconds into video:
question: Is being a gay Republican a crime?
Frank: "It would be if Republicans had their way."
mentions in Texas it was a crime for same sex intimacy, and George W. Bush said it should remain a crime, SCOTUS disagreed .. Scalia vehemently dissented, Thomas dissented, Rehnquist dissented, Rick Santorum went crazy over decision...
The GOP went from hating women and blacks to hating Gays and Latinos/Hispanics
Here's my problem with the Lawrence v. Texas Decision.
In 1986, they had a ruling, Georgia v. Hardwicke, which ruled that various laws against anal and oral sex were constitutionally allowed state laws. The immediate effect was that states that were actually kind of sensible like Wisconsin said, "Oh, Shit, we still have laws like this on the books" and they changed the laws. A few states like Texas didn't.
But the problem I have is how could they be completely constitutional in 1985 and unconstitutional in 2005. The constitution didn't change in any signifigant way. Opinions on the court did.
*reality check, in 1985, we had the AIDS epidemic running wild, and not a lot of understanding of how it spread. So the Justices can be cut a little slack.
The Supreme Court frequently overturns previous Supreme Court rulings and finds things that were once considered Constitutional, unconstitutional as we progress as a society.
That's how.