This is how it is usually summarized:

She had just finished telling one of her favorite stories (which we published in August 1993) about the Texas state legislator who introduced a bill banning sodomy, both homosexual and heterosexual, in the Great State, as she always called Texas. When this legislator succeeded in passing the bill with the help of an ally, the two men shook hands in celebration. “Whereupon, the Speaker had to send the sergeant-at-arms over to reprimand them both,” Molly said, “because under the new law, ‘it’s illegal for a prick to touch an asshole in the state.’ ”

That’s not quite how it happened. Gov. Richards had assembled a panel of legal experts to trim the dead woo out of the criminal code. The experts struck out the sodomy laws among many other laws. The Ledge was about to vote to get rid of all the laws the panel recommended, but two reps, Juan Chisolm and Talmidge Heflin, introduced a bill to see that the sodomy laws stayed in place even though all the rest of the panel’s recommendations would be passed.