They will be raiding and shutting down the Gay bars, bathhouses and other venues. Update 1:
Don't think the hook up apps will be safe either.
UPDATE 1: Texas Christians sue to eliminate Prep from insurance coverage. I put it as an appendix at the end of this article.
Public health officials are given broad powers to preserve the public health. The Christian Right understanding this, no longer has been proposing the anti-homosexual sex laws as morality measures, but as public health measures.
For the Lawrence v. Texas case before the U.S. Supreme Court, the case that over turned all the anti-homosexual laws in the United States, an Amici Curiae, was filed in defense of the anti-homosexual sex laws as a public health measure.
This is the Amici Curiae that was jointly filed by the Texas Physicians Resource Council, Christian Medical and Dental Associations, and Catholic Medical Association. The lawyer of record was Glen Lavy of Scottsdale, Arizona.
https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/adf_-amicusbrief_lawrence_v_texas.pdf
The filing does not discuss Christianity or the Bible, it bases its entire argument on public health. The titles of the sections spell out their logic. This is from Page 2 & 3 of the pdf of the brief.
In summary the state “Sodomy” laws are justified as public health measures and homosexual sex acts are harmful to the public health.
The Catholic Medical Association still exists.
https://www.cathmed.org/
The Christian & Dental Medical Associations still exists.
https://cmda.org/
It is unclear if the Texas Physicians Resource Council still exists. It might be absorbed into another body. On Twitter they haven’t been active since 2014. https://twitter.com/TexasPRC
However, the lead attorney who filed the brief in support of the anti-homosexual sex laws, Glen Lavy, is mentioned in this following group, American Defense of Freedom group, a group which the recent confirmed Supreme Court member Amy Coney Barrett has spoken to. Notice that he is proud of his efforts to keep the state anti-homosexual sex laws and the organization thought it was a positive thing also.
https://adflegal.org/biography/glen-lavy
They are focused on opposing Gay people and have 480 articles with the word “homosexual.”
https://adflegal.org/search?search_term=homosexual&page=0
According to this article this is a group which recent confirmed Supreme Court member Amy Coney Barrett spoke to.
https://msmagazine.com/2020/10/15/amy-coney-barrett-alliance-defending-freedom-adf-lgbtq-hate-group/
There are right wing groups that collect the supposed health statistics of Gay people. Such as this group at this link. They got this information from a defunct American group Exodus International, a former ex-Gay group in the United States.
https://www.ausfamily.org/resources/sexual-behaviour/gay-rights-or-public-health
This data does show that vaccine development for all STDs should have been a major focus of the groups that purport to support Gay rights, but it hasn’t been. The LGBTQXYZ Inc. has this idea that all Gays should get married and be just like straight people and not get STDs and has been afraid to deal with the issues of STDs or even mention them. The LGBTQXYZ press and organizations are not run by Gay people, they are run by an assortment of sexual identities which really aren’t sexually active like Gay men, and what Gay men are in these groups are the Respectability Gays.
Here is the Dallas Stonewall Democrats, no general principles stated. Mostly they are about vote harvesting for the Democratic candidates.
https://stonewalldemocratsofdallas.wildapricot.org/
https://stonewalldemocratsofdallas.wildapricot.org/Press/Media
Mostly, the Stonewall Democrats in Dallas are pushing puberty blockers for pre-puberty children and helping drag Gay rights over a cliff.
You will find some health news in the LGBTQXYZ media, but you won’t find advocacy for research efforts on STDs excepting HIV. The rates of syphilis are a major part of the Amici Curiae above, but there has been no advocacy that there needs to be serious effort regarding the development of a syphilis vaccine in the LGBTQXYZ media or organizations.
The slowness of the Democrats to react to monkey pox and mobilize and the LGBTQXYZ Inc. to take up the issue is another example of their squeamishness in dealing with STDs.
The Goal of the Religious Right isn’t to back to the old status quo, they want to squash the Gay movement like a bug.
When it is a health measure the government is granted broad powers. Witness the recent COVID pandemic. Masks were mandated, businesses were shut down or issued rules.
The situation won’t go back to before the Lawrence v. Texas ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The anti-Gay Christian Right isn’t going to just want to re-instate the anti-homosexual sex laws. They don’t want to the Gay movement to eventually reverse the situation and their efforts to oppose the Gay movement to be all for nothing. They are looking for a permanent solution to the Gay movement.
Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton said he would defend the Texas state anti-homosexual sex laws if the issue came before U.S. Supreme Court again.
Given that the votes on the Supreme Court were 6 to 3 to overturn Roe v. Wade and only two of the judges that ruled against the anti-homosexual sex laws are still on the Supreme Court and there are only counted three liberal votes now on the Supreme Court, the possibility of Lawrence v. Texas being overturned is a very real possibility, and even more it is likely to happen. In the following post I reviewed in a 2nd section at the end how many of the Supreme Court justices that had pro-Gay votes on rulings in the past are still on the Supreme Court. No many, three at the most.
The upcoming 2022 mid-term elections look like a total disaster for the Democrats.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/
After the 2022 mid=term elections President Biden is going to end up with both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate as well as the U.S. Supreme Court controlled by the Republican Party, a party that is in the hands of anti-Gay lunatics.
Again, they aren’t going to sit around and wait for the Gay community to mobilize and change things later on. In general, the Republicans have been working of preventing themselves from being a permanent minority party by restricting voting and restricting the Democratic process to people who vote Republican. We can expect that part of that agenda is to eliminate the Lesbian and Gay community as a political force in the United States, and eliminated it permanently.
There is very likely going to be raids on the Bath Houses and other sexual venues.
Likely health boards and the Alcohol Beverage Commissions of states with anti-homosexual sex laws will be shutting down the Gay bars.
They will be raiding Gay bars also on the premise that the individuals are acting against the public health interests.
Further there will be attempts to crackdown and eliminate other Gay venues. Don’t think the hook up apps will be safe. If they are considered bad for the public health there are ways pressure can be applied to smartphone companies and telecommunication companies to not allow the download of the apps.
We can also expect a bounty system to encourage private individuals to sue groups and establishments on the basis that they violating the health codes just as they set up a bounty system for private individuals.
Who will be defending the Gays when this onslaught starts? No one. No one who is competent and not a collection of imbeciles. How dynamic does President Biden appear to you in defending abortion rights. News articles said he had to be pressured to do an action that will very little impact.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/08/biden-abortion-executive-order-00044647
Will the LGBTQXYZ Inc. protect us? No, I don’t think this bunch of squishys will be able to protect us. It is full of people who just like to show boat their moral superiority or display their afflictions or just engage in nonsense. They are phobic of guns. They think bleating out pious sentiments will do something. They are tiny little self-righteous groups which aren’t in touch with the general Gay community. They are advocating puberty blockers to children and coming across as lunatics to the general public and demolishing the credibility of the LGBT.
Will the Democrats protect us? So fair they are failing to protect anyone. There is a joke circulating around that, “If the Republicans are the mass shooter, the Democrats are the Uvalde cops.” Despite a general trend towards less religion and more liberalism, the Republicans continue to run over them. The over-turning of abortion rights is just the latest example. It might be asked how did Amy Coney Barret become a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
The Gay community needs to start organizing now. There needs to be serious groups with serious plans.
As an immediate first step, I strongly recommend that you increase the physical security of your house or apartment and additionally purchase a gun. Make contingency plans to leave your state if it currently has anti—homosexual sex laws.
UPDATE 1:
A Texas Christian group is suing to eliminate Prep being covered by the Affordable Care Act insurance. This would have murderous impact on Gays since the rate of HIV would likely to go up.
https://fortune.com/2022/07/26/hiv-prevention-drug-prep-texas-lawyer-abortion-ban-aca-lawsuit/
This is another article.
Quoting from the article.
Jonathan Mitchell, the Republican former solicitor general of Texas known for his efforts to restrict abortion access in the state, argues the mandatory PrEP coverage forces Christians to subsidize “homosexual behavior” in violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a statute cited in other health care fights over abortion, contraception and treatments for transgender people.
His clients -- Christian-owned Kelley Orthodontics and Braidwood Management Inc., as well as several individuals who also object on religious grounds -- believe the mandate makes them complicit in “conduct that is contrary to their sincere religious beliefs,” Mitchell said at a hearing Tuesday.
IF HE WINS GAY PEOPLE WILL DIE