texas: "home of the coward"

Because they think they are Saving us.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.

This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.

-C. S. Lewis

Another Texan here. Even though this bill (hopefully) has little chance to be passed into law, do our legislators have nothing better to do than moan about a tiny percentage of the population of which don’t cause any harm to others??

Democrats can't afford to oppose the Republicans. If they didn't have them around they'd have nothing to fundraise about.

Yeehawdists

Fortunately a bill like this is unlikely to ever be referred out of committee. The Texas House is where legislation goes to die. They haven't even passed a budget yet, or figured out what they're doing with school vouchers, both of which must be passed before they can even start considering anything else