Posted on 02/26/2014 11:34:21 AM PST by Snickering Hound
SAN ANTONIO — A federal judge in San Antonio has declared Texas' ban on gay marriage unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia, however, also issued a stay, meaning the ban stays in effect for the time being.
One lesbian couple had to go to Massachusetts to get married, and they want Texas to recognize the union.
A second gay couple have a courtship of 17 years and want to get married here in their home state.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
OK, please start with our teenaged Marxist mayor. Those of us in San Antonio would be ever so grateful.
Not sure how the current state of things can last for long. It has been moving with great speed even as we speak.
I think we’ll probably need a NATIONAL REFERENDUM to DEFINE WHAT MARRIAGE IS in our constitution.
It’s going to be very hard to exist with some states recognizing some marriages and others not.
Julian “the fey one” Castrato
You are correct regarding the Supreme Court ruling. However the liberals were not happy with that outcome. So they have been suing states in federal court since then over their definitions of marriage.
Mainstream liberal thought nowadays is that it is just like racial discrimination and the old Jim Crow laws to not allow homosecual marriage. That’s quite a stretch in my opinion, but that’s where mainstream liberal legal opinions are nowadays.
Even though this whole subject of “sexual orientation” or “sexual identity” is not a protected class under federal civil rights laws, liberal judges are issuing rulings as if homosexuals are a protected class under those laws. They decided that homosexuality is a minority group.
I live in Texas. And I predict that Texas will ignore any queer marriage rulings. Our Attorney General - soon to be Governor Gregg Abott has made traditional marriage a main plank of his carreer. And the new elected A/G (Paxton or Branch) have already made campaign promises to keep Texas straight.
Sure, we have liberal politicians like the Castro brothers and Abortion Barbie. But they are useless and actually provide amusement for us with their stupid antics.
“Orlando Garcia, a Clinton appointed Federal Judge...”
Orlando?
With Clinton already advocating Gay Marriage, I am not quite sure any of his judicial appointments should be making decisions on the issue.
Eventually there will be heretofore unimaginable forms of “marriage” allowed. We are at the top of a very slippery slope.
Exactly.
“Texas needs to secede.”
Texas sends more in taxes to the fed.gov than it receives.
We have more than enough income from oil and gas than we need (and it is expanding at a rapid rate and will continue to do so for quite a while).
We have ample agriculture, so we can feed ourselves...plus we have a bunch of fishing off the coast and in our many lakes.
We certainly can defend ourselves - the federal equipment that our taxes paid for would be perfectly adequate. We can build nukes at the Pantex plant, rockets to sit them on in Houston, and have at least 50 million guns (and people who know how to use them).
We can thus feed and take care of ourselves, and have shown an ability to do just that for well over 175 years. Frankly, I don’t know why we remain in the decaying and disintegrating Union. I’m sure that several of the surrounding states would join us - heck, we’d make a pretty good-sized country, one with traditional American values that would prosper and grow mighty, while Lieberal-land on the coasts and the upper Midwest would continue to sink into the muck and mire.
The SCOTUS also denied standing to the people of CA for a suit forcing their state-officers from abiding by the Prop 8 Amendment -- even though the CA Supreme Court certified their standing in the absence of the State's prosecutor taking up the case. In so doing, the USSC told the people that it is not a State matter.
So it very much seems that whether it's a State issue or not depends on if it's in line
with their opinion.
“I live in Texas. And I predict that Texas will ignore any queer marriage rulings. Our Attorney General - soon to be Governor Gregg Abott has made traditional marriage a main plank of his carreer. And the new elected A/G (Paxton or Branch) have already made campaign promises to keep Texas straight.”
I would hope so, but at worse, gay marriages would only be conducted by Justices of the Peace in Houston, Dallas, Ft. Worth, El Paso, Austin and San Antonio and the entire rest of the state would not have to deal with Gay Marriage.
The only stick in the mud for a full conservative/libtard divide is Colorado. The west can be called the Esperanto Republic and the east can be called the United Socialist States of America.
“As in the Days of Noah”
I live in Texas.
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Lucky you. I unfortunately live in a perma-blue state with the usual assortment of liberal-inflicted problems. I had the good fortune to go to Texas on several business trips and always enjoyed the state and its friendly people. You’re living in the right place. :)
That will be all of the states’ undoing
There is nothing unconstitutional about the amendment in Texas, or anywhere else for that matter.
Julian, the La Raza narco-terrorist more like. Needs to be deported to a Cartel compound.
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