Random Politics & Religion #02

I will deliver you an Altima quality line here.

this guy came over for what has to be something that not even AO could outdo.

As Texas’ third solicitor general, the New York Times reported earlier this month, Ted Cruz transformed an “under-the-radar, apolitical office into an aggressively ideological, attention-grabbing one.” He sent pro-gun, anti-abortion amicus briefs to the Supreme Court, “clashed” with the lawyers on his team, and “inserted himself” into controversial cases in other states.

But Cruz didn’t always approve of inserting some things into other things. One of his most memorable acts as solicitor general was defending Texas’ prohibition of sex-toy sales. David Corn writes in Mother Jones that Cruz waged a legal campaign against ***, artificial vaginas, and vibrators in 2007, arguing that U.S. residents have no right “to stimulate one’s genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship.”

The simple fact that Ted Cruz once said, wrote, and/or thought the word genitals is the most sickening revelation of this report. But the argument he put forth is pretty awful, too. After two undercover police officers arrested a woman for selling sex toys at a “Passion Party”—an erotic take on the Tupperware party—several Austin-based sex-toy companies sued Texas to challenge its ban on this kind of commercial activity. To fend off the companies’ claims to a 14th Amendment right to privacy, Cruz and his office compared using sex toys to polygamy and sex work. (Read the entire solicitor general’s brief, which calls people who own vibrators “obscene-device users,” at Gawker.) “It is undoubtedly true that some individuals and couples—perhaps even some married couples—believe that hiring a willing prostitute or engaging in consensual bigamy would enhance their sexual experiences,” the filing stated.

To uphold the state’s interest in “protecting public morals,” the government must do what it can to discourage “autonomous sex and the pursuit of sexual gratification unrelated to procreation,” Cruz’s office argued. Cruz wanted Texas sex to mimic assembling Ikea furniture: a dutiful, results-oriented process enacted without the assistance of substantial tools.

A federal court ended up deciding 2-1 against Cruz, okaying autonomous genital stimulation for the people of Texas and ruling that a ban on selling masturbation aids is an undue burden on a right to privacy that protects masturbation. Since then, Texas *** have been pulling double duty as gun substitutes: They’ve been wielded in protest against a state campus carry law and Photoshopped into the crosshairs of Cruz’s own loving gaze in a meme that replaced guns with *** in the hands of Republican presidential candidates.

The mans a monster... "Us citizens have no right to stimulate their genitals outside the purpose procreation." ...or has a really small penis and a wife who's probably getting trained by a professional sports team when he's not around. Then again he totally looks like one of those cucks that would suck off his wife's bull.

I wonder if this one is gonna get me in trouble!

Just when I thought Cruz couldn't get worse. This guy is a bottomless pit of darkness and despair.

authoritarian conservatives

Really he's just this election cycle's Rick Santorum. Everyone election has got "that guy." That is, the moralist, deeply religious, "we should base all of our laws on the Bible and burn witches at the stake" guy.

It's just terrifying to me that he has so much more support than Rick Santorum had. There's something in this country driving a great divide between hardcore conservatives and everyone else, and it's really upsetting to see how many people when forced to pick sides are going with the hardcore authoritarian conservatives.

If a Republican is elected, the pendulum will swing in the the house most likely. The more I think about it (and as strange as it is saying this), if Trump or Cruz were to overstep and potentially make a move that would do irreparable damage, there's always impeachment. Jeez...Clinton went through an impeachment trial spurred by sexual harassment, and that wasn't even detrimental to the state of the country. We have fail-safes.

how the hell did you edit that lol

America is slowly becoming less religious over time.

Yeah...yet I don't feel like that's true.

They feel threatened that their way of life is being rejected more overtime. So they are trying to prevent their beach erosion. Sorta like a pimple flaring up on your *** before it starts shrinking for good.

A bunch of surveys would say otherwise, I think you have to take into account your geographic location, hey.

(ever notice the metropolis's in red states tend to he blue?).

Wow.. This post..