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by intopieces 2201 days ago
> but its a textualist argument that the original legislation did not intend to include homosexuality

Ah, but that's not textualism. Textualism is a method of statutory interpretation whereby the plain text of a statute is used to determine the meaning of the legislation. Instead of attempting to determine statutory purpose or legislative intent, textualists adhere to the objective meaning of the legal text. [0]

[0]https://ballotpedia.org/Textualism