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Texas Democrats revive effort to repeal state’s ban on gay sex
Texas’s defunct ban on “homosexual conduct has not been enforceable since 2003, when the Supreme Court ruled it and other state laws criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults unconstitutional.
But language classifying gay sex as a Class C misdemeanor — punishable by a fine of up to $500 — while unenforceable remains enshrined in Texas law.