The following is a satire and should be read as such.

Texas, being the liberal bastion of homosexuality that it is, has announced that it is considering decriminalizing consensual, private homosexual conduct. On April 5, the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee, which advises the Texas Legislature on bills affecting the Penal Code, heard identical House Bills 604 and 2156. Both aim to remove the sodomy law and references to it from the Texas Penal Code and Family Code.

The United States Supreme Court nullified Texas’ sodomy law — and every other sodomy law in the United States — with the Lawrence v. Texas ruling in 2003, sparking the transformation of Texas into the new Castro District of the 21st century. Now the extreme left-wing progressives in the Texas Legislature have made the decision to think about maybe considering possibly repealing the unenforceable sodomy law.

This slap in the face to traditional, Christian family values begs one obvious question: Without the nullified sodomy law left on the books, how will God-fearing, morally upstanding Texans continue to both actively and symbolically defend themselves against the rainbow revolution that, if left unchecked, will condemn Texas to the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah?

Texas’ current configuration of laws enables the state to defend society from total ruin by the gays. The sodomy law acts as a symbol, clearly communicating Texas’ traditional — and, let’s be honest, morally and religiously superior — position on sexual behavior, which should obviously be restricted to marriage. The enforceable laws enable Texas to actively defend this position by guiding homosexuals into the traditional, God-given gender binary and helping them understand that their private expressions of love and intimacy are deprave, licentious and downright yucky.

Just as many value-minded individuals fight for the powerful symbol of the Christian God’s own Ten Commandments on government property, so should the Texas Legislature fight to retain the powerful symbol of the sodomy law. Gays and lesbians need an overt reminder of who is in charge of protecting society.

The Nancy-Pelosi-wannabe socialist whackjobs in the Texas Legislature obviously do not understand the dire ramifications of maybe considering possibly repealing the nullified law against sodomy. This is another blatant attempt from the left-wing extremists of the atheist Texas Legislature to implement regulations and increase the size of government.

Removing legislation does not always equate to reducing government interference. In practice, this proposed repeal is actually a measure by uncompromising progressives to assert their power and unfairly restrict Texas’ ability to defend its society against complete and utter destruction, which even the suggestion of homosexual tolerance in legislation would undoubtedly elicit.

Rep. Jose Aliseda, R-Beeville, is one of the few reasonable individuals on the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee. Aliseda bravely stood his moral ground amidst the pressure of liberal activists. He questioned these bleeding-heart bills’ elimination of Family Code provisions requiring Texas Health and Human Service to remind Texan students that “homosexual conduct is not an acceptable lifestyle and homosexuality is illegal.”

Unfortunately, the seductive sheen of sin and the pressure from proponents of sexual impropriety swayed Aliseda, and he failed to fight for and protect Texas’ defunct-but-symbolic law. Aliseda completely succumbed to the radical gay agenda when he agreed to an altered official statement that read, “homosexual conduct is not an acceptable lifestyle,” pandering to communist liberal activists and their efforts to hide the obvious fact that it is a choice — a sinful, dangerous, icky choice — to be gay.

In the eight years since the Supreme Court ruling, Texas has used the sodomy law to uphold its symbolic power as society’s moral Big Brother. It is clear that if the few traditional, God-fearing Republicans in the Texas Legislature do not stand their moral ground and uphold even these defunct symbolic gestures, then the radical, Godless left will push their pro-gay, anti-family, society-destroying agenda even harder. If we do not stand for symbolic discrimination of gays and lesbians, Texas may be forced to someday surrender to active, legislated tolerance, equality and complete social destruction.