Your weekday morning blend from Instant Tea:
1. Mainstream media outlets around Texas finally noticed this weekend that eight years after it was declared unconstitutional, Texas’ “homosexual conduct” law is still on the books. And guess what, it’s going to remain on the books: “In this particular session, I’d be hesitant to do any changing,” said Rep. Wayne Christian, R-Center, adding that the law probably “better reflects the views of a lot of citizens” as it is. Read our previous post here.
2. In El Paso, where police recently threatened to enforce the homosexual conduct law, conservatives are fed up with the city’s progressive tilt: What some might call the council’s “progressive” agenda, Pastor Tom Brown calls “radical leftist.” Brown is part of a group that recruited a slate of four candidates — including his wife, Sonia Brown — to run for the City Council. The immediate cause of the group’s creation was its opposition to health benefits for the gay and unmarried partners of city employees. But Brown said it also is concerned with what he sees as government “intrusion.” “We’re getting into where government is conducting our private lives,” Brown said.
3. Meanwhile, in other parts of the U.S., same-sex marriage is no longer such a divisive political issue, according to The Boston Globe. And even one Southern Baptist leader says it’s time to prepare for defeat: “I think it’s clear that something like same-sex marriage is going to become normalized, legalized, and recognized in the culture,’’ said evangelical leader Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., in radio remarks after Obama announced he would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act. “It’s time for Christians to start thinking about how we’re going to deal with that.’’
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I’m confused…..isn’t unconstitutional exactly what is says? If you can’t defend a law in any court of law, is there a point to leaving it on the books for any other reason than plain old-fashioned, ignorant, backwards HATE???? This is a consent agenda item….Texas Republican legislators are just plain retarded (I know, not a PC term, but I’m sorry, in this case, it’s fitting).
Marriage is firstly a civil and contractual matter in America. Period.
So the marriage cops need to keep their religions and gods off our marriages. Cheers, Joe Mustich, CT Justice of the Peace, USA.
It is OK. I don’t expect much from the hillbilly state of Texas, and state rep Christian reflects the common, lousy, racist, sexist, homophobic attitude that Texans cherish. “…adding that the law probably “better reflects the views of a lot of citizens” as it is.” I would like to let everyone in Texas know that their state deserves to be an international sewage tank, and nuclear receptor. I can’t think of any function for it beyond this.
They just got done telling you there are progressives on the El Paso city council, for example, who are trying to do the right thing. Just because some people in Texas think a certain way, and those people happen to be in power, does not mean the entire state is a giant monolith. Try not to alienate your allies while you reflexively bash your enemies. It does nothing good for our cause.
Oh! Are you telling us that the state of TexASS is one of our “allies” Steve?
Dude… Get a life. Yes we have queers and we have allies in texas too. Its a big place, and not a single entity, and you might try getting to know more about them so we could, you know, win some day.
Mr. (Or Rev.) Albert Mohler: Yours is the only intelligent, logical, sensible remark I have ever heard from any Baptist leader anywhere, in any city, on any planet.