Thread by @jallen1985

THREAD: Homosexual sodomy is a crime under state law in Mississippi, and so is heterosexual sodomy.

Today, state senator Chad @mcmahanms and sidekick @bricewigginsMS put language in a computer science bill to teach schoolchildren the former but not the latter. 1/

I'll start at the top. In Mississippi, ALL oral sex and ALL anal sex is criminal under state law. It does not matter:

➡️ If you are gay or straight.
➡️ If the participants are married.
➡️ If the participants are adults.
➡️ If the sex is consensual.

All sodomy is criminal. 2/

Now, wholly unrelated to sex of any kind, the MS Senate education committee today considered HB 633, a bill to provide computer science education in all public schools statewide, which passed the House by a vote of 114-4. billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/histo… 3/

But when the education committee took up the computer science bill, @mcmahanms moved to amend it by copy/pasting Mississippi's abstinence education law into the computer science bill, since the abstinence education law expires this summer. casetext.com/statute/missis… 4/

To that end, the abstinence education law says that abstinence education teaches the state law of "homosexual activity," which is copied in @mcmahanms's amendment.

Again, the sex acts gays and lesbians practice are all, always crimes when straight people practice them too. 5/

Incidentally, all bills to reauthorize and extend Mississippi's abstinence education law died early in the #MSleg's session this year because the education chairs had intended to let individual school districts decide their own sex-ed curriculum: 6/

Several senators expressed reservations about putting abstinence education into the computer science bill, and only one senator (@bricewigginsMS) spoke in support of @mcmahanms's amendment. 7/

@bricewigginsMS expressed concern that teenage pregnancies could increase if local school districts were allowed to decide on their own what sex-ed curriculum to teach. 8/

It does not appear that either @mcmahanms or @bricewigginsMS gave a thought to whether Mississippi's abstinence education law includes significant flaws (i.e. partially teaching Mississippi's unconstitutional sodomy law) before copy/pasting it into the computer science bill. 9/

In any event, the amendment passed, so HB 633 now heads to the Senate floor with a committee substitute including the abstinence education language. 10/

Senators should vote against the committee substitute to HB 633. Mississippi should not be in the business of teaching state laws that are unconstitutional under the federal constitution. 11/

Moreover, if Mississippi law provides for teaching Mississippi's unconstitutional sodomy law, then Mississippi should teach that homosexual sodomy and heterosexual sodomy are both state crimes, rather than just teaching one or the other. 12/