What Does He Think About Blow-Up Dolls?

(Let's take a short break from the easy mockery of Donald Trump -- he's such low-hanging fruit -- and get a glimpse into the mind of another GOP presidential wanna-be, the evangelical wacko Ted Cruz.)
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In 2004 lawsuit, Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz tried valiantly to defend the state's legal ban on the sale of dildos and other sex toys.  His writing on the matter has resurfaced, and his words are, uh, interesting.

In his court brief, Cruz insisted that in order to protect "public morals", Texas had "police-power interests in discouraging prurient interests in sexual gratification, combating the commercial sale of sex, and protecting minors."  The brief maintained there was a "government interest in discouraging autonomous sex" and compared the use of sex toys with "hiring a willing prostitute or engaging in consensual bigamy."  It equated advertising these products with the commercial promotion of prostitution.  And it declared "there is no substantive due-process-right to stimulate one's genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship."

Wow!  What a stunning mish-mash of law and Christian fundamentalist moralizing hokum!

According to Ted, you have no legal right to play with yourself, and a dildo is pretty much the same thing as a prostitute.  If that's so, I wonder what Ted thinks about blow-up dolls?

In a rare instance of Texas sanity, Cruz's defense failed and the dildo ban was lifted.  And twelve years later, Cruz's words return to shine a useful light on the prudish religious nut who wants to be our nation's leader.


"It's a shame to see dildos persecuted and marginalized by one of their own."  -- Larry Wilmore