People tell me I shouldn't make fun of Texas as much as I do but, come on, I just can't help it
after this kind of news:
The Texas GOP platform . . . would it make it a felony to perform same sex marriage (because "homosexuality tears at the fabric of society"), it would also ban oral and anal sex (because it tears at the...oh nevermind, too easy), and outlaw strip clubs and porn.
Some more gems from the platform:
Making make American English the official language of Texas and the United States.Passing legislation requiring a sonogram for each pregnant woman seeking an abortion.
Opposing legislation allowing stem cell research involving the creation of killing of human embryos for medical research.
We obviously don't have any serious problems in this country if a major political party wants to waste its time and resources preventing people from having sex or doing anything sex-related. If anybody doesn't believe that the Texas GOP is a bunch of sexually repressed losers who hate the world because they have been so sexually deprived that they can't master any emotion other than hatred, please tell me how you can maintain that strange conviction in the face of such obvious facts.
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As a native-born Texan, although I haven't lived there much since I was a kid, I have to take exception to ... no, wait a minute. You're right.
I'm pretty much based in Austin as a legal residence, which is the blue spot on a political map of Texas.
They do some weird stuff in Texas, including what you've highlighted. But there are lots of us who don't agree with it. Please remember that. Please!
I thought San Antonio was another blue spot.
"If anybody doesn't believe that the Texas GOP is a bunch of sexually repressed losers who hate the world because they have been so sexually deprived that they can't master any emotion other than hatred, please tell me how you can maintain that strange conviction in the face of such obvious facts."
thats a really long sentence.
and if they did ban sex acts, how would they even uphold that law?
Here is a sexually deprived individual (because of social, cultural and personal factors) who believes political control of people's sexuality is moronic. But it sometimes irritates me to see sexual frustration/deprivation/abstinence be equated with or correlated to political conservatism, religious fundamentalism ills (like fascism). One does not necessarily lead to another, and sexual liberation by itself does not necessarily guarantee a more humane or rational society. The comment was a response to your "sexually repressed losers who hate the world because they have been so sexually deprived" assertion.
"sexual liberation by itself does not necessarily guarantee a more humane or rational society"
-I never said it did. Nor is it supposed to. A sexuality that pursues any other goals other than sexual satisfaction is an unhealthy sexuality.
Sexual frustration/deprivation/abstinence definitely should NOT be equated to political conservatism and religious fundamentalism. But political conservatism and religious fundamentalism should be equated to sexual problems. As they say, all poodles are dogs but not all dogs are poodles. :-)
well of course a fundamentalist's worldview is going to be skewered and bigoted in all respects, and sexuality is no exception. But it seemed to me that you were stressing on the "sexual problems" part, as if that were the single underlying cause behind fundamentalism.
ach...i meant "skewed", not "skewered" in my last post. :P
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