Texas sodomy laws

This may be the most bizarre rationale I have ever read:

Sodomy between unmarried persons of different sexes occur within relationships which Texas may wish to encourage, either as valuable in themselves, or because they could mature into marriages, or both."

The above quote is from the Family Research Council, an organization of very conservative Catholics, in their friend-of-the-court brief to the Supreme Court regarding Texas's sodomy law.

In other words, anal sex, even a one-night-stand of anal sex, in a heterosexual coupling is "all right" because it has the potential to lead to marriage and children.

A really good analysis of the whole kebab can be found in Andrew Sullivan's wonderful essay, We're All Sodomites Now.