After Roe v. Wade was overturned last year, some feared that other court rulings, including the 2003 decision that invalidated sodomy laws, could be revisited. Maryland and Minnesota recently repealed theirs.
In a new book, University of North Texas professor Wesley Phelps explores the history of legal challenges to Texas’ sodomy laws, and introduces readers to the activists who made those challenges possible.
The 2003 ruling focused on two Houston men whose Supreme Court case ruled Texas’ sodomy statute was unconstitutional, setting a precedent for the right to privacy.
Hay stocks are at a 50-year low, and the hay that is on the market is expensive. Vanessa Corriher-Olson, agriculture and life sciences professor at Texas A&M University, joins us with more.