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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz filed brief defending Texas' ban on sex toys.
Once upon a time, when he was but a mere solicitor general for the state of Texas, Ted Cruz helped write a 76-page legal brief defending the Lone Star States ban on the sale of sex toys. While his argument was ultimately shot down by an appellate court, the brief resurfaced Wednesday, confronting Americans with an unfortunate juxtaposition of mental images.
Mother Jones got its hands on the 2007 brief for the case, in which Cruz was tasked with defending a state law banning the sale and advertisement of sex toysor obscene devices, as he called theman offense then punishable by up to two years in jail.
In its brief to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Cruz and his team argued that the plaintiffs challenging the law, a group of online retailers and Austin stores that sold sex toys, were not protected under the 14th Amendments right to privacy. In fact, he continued, banning obscene devices was in the public interest, and the government should be granted police powers for the purposes of discouraging prurient interests in sexual gratification, combating the commercial sale of sex, and protecting minors. Furthermore, using obscene devices, the state argued, was akin to hiring a willing prostitute or engaging in consensual bigamy.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/04/ted-cruz-texas-sex-toy-ban/amp
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Orrex
(63,287 posts)AT LENGTH! Get it! AT LENGTH!
HARDY HAR HAR!!!!!!!!!
Madam Mossfern
(2,340 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)They want to stop the ones who want a rock to wind a string around.
But everybody wants a rock, to wind a piece of string around.
moda253
(615 posts)Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads
Leith
(7,816 posts)rethugs are such hypocrites.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I guess we'll see who supports it next time around.
elleng
(131,411 posts)Unfortunately it was his job.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Yay, Texas!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)So he does not have to buy the fancy sex dolls
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)PdxSean
(574 posts). . . then they'll come for your cucumbers.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)So, are there unwilling prostitutes? Also, can dildos sue for divorce and are they persons like corporations?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,393 posts)And if he were the last man on the planet, I'd do it with a tree.
Oneironaut
(5,547 posts)You would see things on there that would scar you for life.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Blue Owl
(50,588 posts)rests on Buttplug Ted's shoulders...