Because the law is optional in Texas.
Texas… The One Star State?
On a scale of ten.
A judge shouldn’t be letting their personal beliefs affect their job.
But then this is America after all. Land of the free etc etc
This was one of the provisions in the RFMA, the same act liberals cheered for when it passed as if it were something good. This will then trickle down to court clerks about to refuse a license because of personal beliefs
If it trickles down then its their slop. Never the cream.
Texas is the twilight zone of the United States.
The only people who like it there are the ones who don’t know anything else, and the businessmen taking them for a ride.
Texastan, with laws that more and more make them look closer to Afghanistan.
Up next:
- Judges no longer required to marry interracial couples.
- Judges no longer required to marry women pregnant out of wedlock.
- Judges no longer required to marry Muslims, Jews, or athiests.
- Judges no longer required to marry divorced persons.
Take your pick. This is what happens when government steps outside of contract law, and into endorsement of religious beliefs.
Best case scenario, government gets out of the marriage business entirely.
Gotta have a government-recognized binding contract so your spouse can make legal decisions for you. Call it whatever you want (marriage cert, domestic partner) but it has to be the same for all people under the law.
This is part of what the fight for marriage equality was all about. Spouses were unable to see their partners in the hospital, or get custody of children, or inherit, etc. etc. Some people tried to draw up legal agreements, but they ran into obstacles with other family members taking them to court. Remember, “Separate, but equal is inherently unequal.”
I feel like that’s kind of the point they’re making
When you tie so many of those things to marriage, you’ve created an inherent inequality between married people and unmarried people.
Let the idea of “marriage” be up to you, your spouse(s) and whatever god(s) you think may exist.
And let people sort all the rest of it out for themselves.
For example
You can have your spouse and kids covered under your health insurance that you have through work. You don’t necessarily need to live together or even be on good speaking terms as long as you have that piece of paper that says you’re married.
So why shouldn’t you be able to share those benefits with someone else of your choosing? Maybe you’re single and would like to make sure that your best friend and their kids who you see all the time and think of each other as family can go see the doctor when they need to. You probably have a closer relationship with them than someone with an estranged wife and kids they never talk to, why shouldn’t you be able to add them onto your health insurance?
I’ve been making this argument for years. Gay marriage rights were always missing the mark.
It’s a partnership, like partners at a law firm. Doesn’t need to be any different.
Because the law is optional in Texas.
I’m guessing the entire point is to goad someone into suing so it makes its way to SCOTUS and becomes optional or worse nationwide.
Bingo
Boy those guys really didn’t like it when people were saying Texas was turning purple.
Shithole state
Don’t tread on me?
Guess what, fuckface, MY religion fucking hates Trump, Vance, and all of his asshole cronies.
Guess they can’t be in office anymore.
Better yet, this religion could easily hate Trump, Vance, and the assorted boils on the ass of life who make up this administration based solely on the teachings of Christ.
If Christ was alive now he would fucking hate these so called Christians for what they are, and they would hate him back for being a brown socialist.
Uh, yes, they are.
Texas may have passed some crybaby bigotry law, but the federal mandate stands, you hateful fuckbags.
See you in court.
Sadly, getting sued is exactly what these hate-filled pieces of shit want. They want it to go to SCOTUS, which will merrily say, “fuck precedent, let’s make the gays stop marrying. Get back in the closet!”
Yeah, I know.
But I still defend the Oxford comma, so I guess it’s more about the principle of the thing rather than any practical purpose.
When the world gets fucked, you get to survive on the other side according to your own “style”. Cuz, really, who the fuck is gonna stop you?
Certainly not the strippers, JFK and Stalin.
Court. You’re cute. What court?
How DARE they Discriminate against Christians!
Oh it’s NOT against Christians NEVERMIND!
That bitch shouldn’t get to marry anyone. If you can’t be a decent human being, you don’t get to do marriage ceremonies. It’s not required so they should just not do ot for any couples, period.
