On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:09:10PM -0600, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
> Most, if not all, states have had similar laws and they were
> disappearing from the books.  There were only a few states left with
> them and they were going away.  They were really never enforced, except
> for this one time of course.  They really wanted to arrest the perp for
> something else, but they were unable to find probable cause.  They were
> grasping at straws and used this law.  A stupid call with incredibly far
> reaching repercussions.  Wait and see.

A law that can be misused in this way is a bad law and should be done away
with.

You've got a houston.rr.com email address...do you live there? I did for 41
years, until I left at the end of 2001. The case that wound up getting the
Texas law thrown out was started by an arrest in Houston. I can sasy that
there had been proposals to repeal that law in the Texas legislature for
years, but they were going nowhere because the Religious Right was
hand-wringing that doing so would "legitimize homosexuality". Repealing it
was the rightt hing to do, and the Texas legislature wasn't about to do it,
so the Supreme Court did it for them.

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