Screw the country today...tomorrow, the world.
Posted on 04/14/2016 3:09:33 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Ted Cruz once argued that Americans have no constitutional right to bear dildos, that the government has a legitimate interest in discouraging "autonomous sex," and that allowing the sale of sex toys is the first step on the road to legal incest.....
....On Wednesday, the magazine published an exposé detailing Cruz's defense of a ban on sex-toy sales while serving as the Texas solicitor general. Back in 2004, several adult-plaything providers challenged a Texas law that banned the sale and promotion of "obscene devices."......The plaintiffs founded their challenge on the Fourteenth Amendment's right to privacy,...... A federal judge turned the company down, it appealed, and in 2007 it fell to Cruz's legal team to keep dildos from undermining the fabric of Western civilization.
In a 76-page brief calling on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to stand with the lower court, Cruz's office wrote that "any alleged right associated with obscene devices" is not "deeply rooted in the Nation's history and traditions."..... While Cruz acknowledged that,......government could not ban the "private use of obscene devices," it could ban their sale so as to uphold "public morals." What's more, while the government can't forbid citizens from masturbating, it has a legitimate interest in "discouraging ... autonomous sex." Cruz's team went on to declare, "There is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one's genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship."
I have no problem with this. Cruz was just doing his job enforcing the will of the Texas Legislature as Solicitor General.
I predict you will not be here long.
A slippery slope may have started with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut, which led to Roe, then the same sex marriage cases etc.
You’re really going to question my Christian faith because I have a problem with a father discussing porn in front of his very young daughters to score political points with a CNN audience?
What exactly is wrong with my having an issue with that? Be specific.
Why are you so sensitive to Ted Cruz’s d!ldo case?
If your a twelve year old virgin, your Momma should be monitoring what you read on the internets. Also, where is your outrage or protest when the usual crew of regulars post scantily clad hottie pics on FR.
Ted wrote a 76-page brief about d!ldos and presented that to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He obviously had no problem doing that.
It was his job to defend a state law. He was solicitor general and they violating state law.
DANG!
Read the case, he lost.
Sure are a lot of trolls out this election.
You get off on this, don’t you?
but you posted a comment?
You just did.
Cruz’s college roommate said Ted’s opposition to masturbation must have comes later in life. Lol. Sexually repressed much Ted?
But I am not going to rise to this bait.
Lawyers often have to take cases they do not agree with. I have no opinion on the article
If Cruz becomes the nominee the Democrats are going to have a field day with this.
If this is true....Cruz had no choice but to fulfill his role as Texas solicitor general. He worked for the state in that capacity 12 years ago and was was told to take the case.
Let’s give these bogus hit pieces a rest.
More sexually repressed and re-virginized Cruz supporters who can’t stand to read Ted’s smut. The’anointed one’ has never committed a sin ya know.
Who are you to decide what is relevant and can or can not be posted? Is there a moratorium on what is allowed to be discussed regarding St. Cruz, the Pious one? He wrote 67 pages about this, he had no problem doing so.
Grow up. It was Cruz’s case, he argued he lost. He appealed, he lost.
Yours: “....from the rest of the article:
Cruz has never discussed his views on dildo commerce during the 2016 campaign, and it’s unlikely that many of his supporters know his history on such matters. It’s difficult to gauge the effect this news will have on Cruz’s standing with the electorate, as exit polls neglected to ask Republican primarygoers about their affinity for sexual devices.” -———————————————— .....The pollsters were probably too busy jerking off...
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