DEBRIS.COMgood for a laugh, or possibly an aneurysm

sfgate.com columnist Mark Morford pokes some fun at Texas for its sodomy laws. This is one of the best bits:

As recently as 1986, the [Supreme Court], to much derision and general scorn, upheld an older, 1976 ban on homosexual and heterosexual sodomy in Georgia, a precedent which Texas then followed, though Texas took the additional step of criminalizing only consensual anal or oral sex with your same-sex lover, but not with your hetero partner. Or with an animal. It’s true. Sheep: legal. Gay lover: illegal. Now you know why they call it cattle country.

Here’s the whole piece: Is Sodomy Patriotic? Where naughty gay sex in Texas meets the rigid U.S. Supreme Court. Hide the children.

Warning to prudes and Midwesterners: this article may upset you. Don’t worry, though; your condition is not without a cure. I lived in the Midwest for 21 years, and just a few months after moving to California I was no longer afraid of gay men.

OK, I admit it; I’m teasing Midwesterners… I mean it good-naturedly, as I’m a relatively recent transplant. But I am embarrassed to see that my home state has a sodomy law that targets homosexuals exclusively. Is this really a behavior that we need to outlaw and punish? Why are we even having this conversation?