HB1738 would have repealed the criminal offense of homosexual conduct in state law.
The House passed HB1738 on May 16, 2025, by a vote of 59 to 56. We have assigned pluses to the nays because the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas is egregiously illegitimate and unconstitutional. Homosexual behavior ought to remain illegal. Being contrary to the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” the grossly illicit, self-inhibiting, and unsanitary acts of sexual perversion inherent to the LGBTQ+ movement undermine self-government and the family—the very foundations of a free society. True “equality” means that there can be no appeal to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” for anyone apart from the moral commands set forth by “their Creator” who grants them with “certain unalienable Rights.” Nothing in the U.S. Constitution can be used to support homosexuality, nor can any legislation or court opinion make normal, let alone constitutional, that which is abominable and shameful.
