Back Door Deal

Presumably because all its moral energies are required for the two-front war on trans rights and drag acts, the Christian state of Texas may soon condescend to fall into line with at least one among the more Satanic provisions of the dreaded US Constitution. As might be imagined in a land whose natives have been cited as living proof that the Indians screwed buffaloes, the sodomy law arrived quite a long time after the pagan hordes were exterminated, only to be ruled unconstitional by the Supreme Court a mere thirty years later. A gay black Dallas Democrat has now managed to get a repeal bill past the committee on criminal jurisprudence; the price of said passing to include an amendment preserving current legislation which proclaims that "homosexuality is not a lifestyle acceptable to the general public." Since homosexuality is of course not a lifestyle at all, it seems a small enough payment for putting to rest an unenforceable law which for the past twenty years has lain impotent on the clean white sheets of the Lone Star statute books.