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considering the ban was never enforceable, this doesn't really mean much aside from telling us that the republicans who voted for it are all fucking bigots.
Why wasn't it enforceable?
Any chance it was like the "tripwire" laws for abortion that went into effect once Roe was lost?
That and it was also used to harass gay people. Cops would arrest them knowing the law wouldn't be enforced, but getting cuffed and dragged to jail for the night makes the point.
Because it was an actually an arrest under this law that led to the SCOTUS decision ruling these laws to be unconstitutional.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas
So removing it from the state's legal code is a pre-emptive action in anticipation of Project 2025 in the wake of Thomas' comments after Dobbs (he specifically called out Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell to be re-examined using the same arguments in order to overturn them all).