I am a Texas resident myself, I love it here, probably wouldn't live anywhere else in this country, but I'm getting pretty sick of the religious right. Do you think that Texas will ever join the modern school of thought, or always be about the moral majority? Serious answers, please.
2007-07-24 12:16:19 · 10 answers · asked by ? 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
And by the way, were not all redneck, gun-toting, radical Christian republicans. I know that shocks some people.
2007-07-24 12:16:58 · update #1
I live in Dallas...its not as bad here as other places, but state laws are pretty antiquated and based off religious principles.
2007-07-24 12:21:28 · update #2
Correction: Not all laws, but many.
2007-07-24 12:22:25 · update #3
bigfuzzysquirrelsnuts: Did you read the question? Bush is the president of the United States, not the governor of Texas.
2007-07-24 12:23:38 · update #4
Texan viewpoint is mixed and probably won't change.
The attitude that you have run afoul of is far from common.
When you talk about Texas laws then you are talking about something that is almost impossible to change. The Texas Blue laws, that prevented some items being sold on Sunday, took years and years to repeal and those laws dated back to the Pilgrims!
In the 1970s they tried to amend the Texas Constitution and got nowhere with it. So it is still illegal in the State to carry a pair of wire cutters in your hip pocket and sidewalks are supposed to have spittoons ever 50 feet.
The Texas State Constitution is so out of date and antiquated that it is almost ignored. The law about wire cutters has been re-written to make it illegal to carry a concealed weapon. That is a pretty far reach from the original, but it is what the state has to do to work with it as it is written. Remember the Texas Constitution was written in the times of the Wild West and the Range Wars with Billy the Kid. That's where the wire cutter law came from. As a requirement after the Civil War the southern states had to re-write their state constitutions to let the federal constitution take priority. So the people of the time wrote their constitution for the time. Now 200 years later it is no longer valid and it is too hard to amend or change so it has to be worked with.
Since you live in the Dallas area you know that some county's are wet, some are dry and some are damp allowing beer and wine. A recent election to try and repeal the dry law for one town failed. So evidence shows that any legal changes are going to be slow in Texas
The Texas House and Senate are so large and clumsy that getting anything done is a major miracle. Governor Perry had to call 3 special sessions to get the Texas State Congress to pass school reform laws and he still didn't get what he wanted.
2007-07-24 12:31:03 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The religious right is everywhere. Texas gets more than its fair share of the blame. Eventually, enough people will make the religious right look ridiculous and they'll back off a bit.
Most of the people I know from Texas are pretty far left. And Anne Richards was OK, wasn't she?
San Antonio, btw, is an awesome place.
2007-07-24 19:30:20 · answer #2 · answered by Lynn M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your question in hard to answer because you do not specify to which laws you are referring. The death penalty? - more states should execute the degenerates that commit heinous crimes instead of letting them out of prison to commit the same crimes again. Gun laws? - the only people that have ever been affected by any gun law is the law-abiding citizen. Criminals don't care what the law says anyway. Abortion laws? - these laws are often so ambiguous. How can it someone be charged with murder of an infant when a pregnant woman is killed but it is lawful for any doctor and woman to kill the same child and call it lawful abortion?
2007-07-24 19:31:23 · answer #3 · answered by Truth is elusive 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Moral Majority" Interesting term. With all the greed, pornography, murder, robbery ETC ETC. happening in our "progressive" "liberal"society, I don't see where a group (majority) of decent (moral) people are so bad. I have seen my country going down the tubes and I just don't see the church going crowd causing it. Modern school of thought? You can have it. By the way, I lived in Texas also. I loved it there.
2007-07-24 19:29:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Texan, and it is not the state & its inhabitants, it is the members of the backward religious cults (here, in DC, in all other states) that need to come out of the dark ages.
2007-07-24 19:19:49 · answer #5 · answered by eilishaa 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God I hope not. I wish Texas would secede. We still can you know.
If you don't like Texas, GET OUT, Don't mess with Texas.
2007-07-24 19:21:55 · answer #6 · answered by Sheila E 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From an outsiders point of view, I think its the Mormons that need to come out of the Dark Ages.
2007-07-24 19:22:45 · answer #7 · answered by Lighthouse 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I guess it depens what part of texas you live in.
2007-07-24 19:19:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
long as corrupt preachers can prey upon the stupid peddling gods and making $$$ it will remain medieval
2007-07-24 19:21:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
May be if they got rid of BUSH things would change.
2007-07-24 19:21:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋