Travis County judge rules Texas' gay marriage ban uncons utional

[z0sa]

why not, supposing they be legally recognized?

I cant think of any good reason why a legal spouse should be denied benefits. Or beneficiary, if that is in accordance with law.

[Blake]

I think it's much more about Christian nuts worried about being frced to provide goods/services/jobs/benefits to the evil gays

[boutons_deux]

I think it's much more about Christian nuts worried about being frced to provide goods/services/jobs/benefits to the evil gays

a lot of these rural -kicking redneck Baptist Christians are on public assistance.

[FromWayDowntown]

Thanks for the responses, Blake, Spurminator, and Boutons.

I am still skeptical the money issue isnt at the forefront of politician's minds, but nonetheless I do feel a lot of social conservatives are simply becoming indifferent to both aspects, money and wedding bells.

I think a lot of social conservatives are becoming indifferent to the argument is that the argument has, for all intents and purposes, been lost.

The truth that systemic discrimination against sexuals will not stand cons utional scrutiny any longer has been self-evident for quite a long time now; once that was made clear, the path to recognizing that bans on same-sex marriage are an hetical to basic Cons utional precepts was readily apparent.

The courts have now begun sprinting down that path and what lies at the end of that road is now undeniable. To fight against same-sex marriage at this point is to assume a Sisyphean position that looks more and more anachronistic with each passing day.

[Blake]

a lot of these rural -kicking redneck Baptist Christians are on public assistance.

http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/ar...cklash/284496/

I think a bunch of Bible beater churches are afraid of getting sued for denying to marry gays.

Schools afraid of getting sued for denying gays admission.

Etc.

[Blake]

I think a lot of social conservatives are becoming indifferent to the argument is that the argument has, for all intents and purposes, been lost.

The truth that systemic discrimination against sexuals will not stand cons utional scrutiny any longer has been self-evident for quite a long time now; once that was made clear, the path to recognizing that bans on same-sex marriage are an hetical to basic Cons utional precepts was readily apparent.

The courts have now begun sprinting down that path and what lies at the end of that road is now undeniable. To fight against same-sex marriage at this point is to assume a Sisyphean position that looks more and more anachronistic with each passing day.

.....googling Sisyphean...

[boutons_deux]

.....googling Sisyphean...

don't worry, it's foreign , Americans don't care.

[Blake]

Lol

[z0sa]

.....googling Sisyphean...

Lol. The only reason I knew the reference is because of a similarly led Pink Floyd composition.

great post FromWayDowntown.

[Winehole23]

Paxton faces contempt for refusing to recognize a man's valid out of state marriage:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and a top state health official were ordered to appear before a federal judge in San Antonio next week to determine if they should be held in contempt for violating a court order prohibiting enforcement of the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.


The issue involves a Conroe man who is seeking to amend the death certificate of his male spouse to reflect their 2014 marriage in New Mexico. The do ent listed James Stone-Hoskins, who died in January, as single and his surviving spouse, John Allen Stone-Hoskins, as his “significant other.”


State officials declined repeated requests to make the change — most recently on Monday — saying they were still reviewing whether a June U.S. Supreme Court decision, which overturned all remaining state bans on gay marriage, should retroactively apply to a death certificate issued five months earlier.


Hours after the widower filed suit Wednesday morning challenging the decision, U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia issued a ruling ordering state officials to amend the death certificate.

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/i...f-court/nnDWN/

[Winehole23]

James Stone-Hoskins also died without a will, and the refusal to amend the death certificate — a service routinely granted to opposite-sex couples — “prevents John from gaining le to James’s estate as his surviving spouse,” the lawsuit said.

[boutons_deux]

How many taxpayer $Ms will hate-filled TX Bible-humping Repugs waste losing these same-sex marriage suits?