This matter won't be rectified until at least the Second Coming. Until then, it'll always be "rectum, heck, it killed him" and we are to be at work doing what instructs, prevents, and delivers people from harm.
And, given time, I feel confident it would have been. The public is getting more and more tolerant of gay people -- even in Texas.
Homosexually, most commonly (at least among men, from what reports I've seen) is a behavior pattern learned chiefly by seduction (rape) of boys. It is our duty to tolerate people, but not everything they do, in isolated instances nor in patterns and systems of practice.
Frankly, I'm for good law --applied practically and not impractically. We shouldn't bust people's doors down, in order to find out if they're breaking the law, without probably cause of sufficent harm. But that doesn't mean that we are to hold harmless, harmful acts (physically as well as to alma and all her girlfriends). For matters like this, we should just use sense. Another example is that we don't need to make marijuana smoking uttery legal; we can keep it only quasi-criminal --as we do with reckless driving --in this case reckless operation of one's body and inside the body politic.
In any case it should not be a federal case, as you say. Among the Pandora's Box of things this opens up also, is divorce levarage in favor of a funky husband when his wife refuses to present her anus for him and for damage. The damnable act is simply, inherently harmful.
Should it be perfectly legal to stuff pencils as far as possible into consenting "adults" eyes and ears? Don't laugh -- how about sexual asphyxiation?
I think you've been reading too many fund raising letters.
Yes, yes and yes.
Another example is that we don't need to make marijuana smoking uttery legal; we can keep it only quasi-criminal
Ah yes! Subvert the rule of law. Make it grey. That way MAN has power over citizens... Sigh.