This week’s installment of Equality Texas’ update on the state Legislature focuses on the removal of the “homosexual conduct” law.
State Rep. Jessica Farrar, D- Houston, filed a companion bill to state Sen. Jose Rodriguez’s bill, which would remove the language form the Texas Penal Code, which remains even after the statute was found unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 2003 case Lawrence v. Texas.
Even a Republican strategist agreed this week that the bill needs to be removed after a lawsuit in El Paso in 2009 when police threatened to charge them under the law for kissing in public.
Watch it below.
