In one chapter of his campaign book, A Time for Truth , Sen. Ted Cruz proudly chronicles his days as a Texas solicitor general, a post he held from to He also described cases in which he championed gun rights and defended the conviction of a Mexican citizen who raped and murdered two teenage girls in a case challenged by the World Court. Yet one case he does not mention is the time he helped defend a law criminalizing the sale of dildos. The case was actually an important battle concerning privacy and free-speech rights.
Cocks Not Glocks: Texas students carry dildos on campus to protest gun law
In Texas, even possession of a sex toy is regulated - Houston Chronicle
Please refresh the page and retry. H undreds of University of Texas students waved sex toys at a campus rally during the first day of classes, protesting a new state law that allows concealed handguns in college classrooms, buildings and dorms. Organisers said the sex toys were used on Wednesday to mock what they consider an absurd notion that guns should be allowed in academic settings. The law took effect on August 1. One prominent dean left the school after the law passed in Several faculty members attended the rally. T he professors had argued academic freedom could be chilled under the so-called "campus carry" law backed by the state's Republican political leaders.
An unusual protest in the works for months took place Wednesday at the University of Texas at Austin. Students carried dildos, posted photographs of themselves in class with dildos see above and announced that they had dildos in their bags -- pointing out that there are provisions of Texas law that could punish them for carrying sex toys -- even as the new campus carry law would not punish them for carrying guns. Be the first to know. Get our free daily newsletter.
The Obscene Device Law is a Texas statute prohibiting the sale of sex toys. The law was introduced in , and was last updated in While the law was never formally repealed, in a U. District Judge released a report declaring it to be "facially unconstitutional and unenforceable".