"There are valuable reasons for telling certain stories in a certain way at pivotal times, but that doesn’t mean we have to hold on to them once they’ve outlived their usefulness. In his book, Flagrant Conduct, Dale Carpenter, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, similarly unpicks the notorious case of Lawrence v. Texas, in which the arrest of two men for having sex in their own bedroom became a vehicle for affirming the right of gay couples to have consensual sex in private. Except that the two men were not having sex, and were not even a couple. Yet this non-story, carefully edited and taken all the way to the Supreme Court, changed America."
It is a casual description of the 1984ish media of our nation.
The DA said he couldn’t choose which laws to enforce, then let them off the hook for the drugs charges they faced in that apartment.
He ultimately said he didn’t care about that law against same sex sodomy.
He was also against gun rights.
Funny character for a Harris County “Republican”. Glad he was run out of office in scandal (communicating with a mistress on company computers). He was also accused of sharing “racist” jokes (a comic strip in which Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, two confirmed bigots, were seen next to a wishing well. One of them throws a coin in the well wishing that racism would disappear, then they both vanish).
The fix was in from the beginning, I suspect.
And they are still making legal attacks for same sex marriage in Texas.