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Title: Gay rights advocates (They mean faggots) warn bills would undercut favorable court ruling on same-sex marriage
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URL Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews. ... ing-on-same-sex-marriage.html/
Published: May 12, 2015
Author: Robert T. Garrett
Post Date: 2015-05-12 06:38:46 by A K A Stone
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Views: 2773
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Texas State Rep. Cecil Bell, Jr., center, gets some helpful hands from fellow legislators as he prepares to cut a 10-year anniversary wedding cake to celebrate the state’s same-sex marriage ban during Faith and Family Day on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, at the Texas Capitol. (Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman/TNS) Leaders of civil-rights and liberal groups are warning Texas lawmakers not to damage the state’s economy and reputation by passing bills designed to undercut a possibly favorable ruling on same-sex marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court this summer.
As deadlines for passing bills begin to kick in this week, the Legislature’s two chambers could take floor action on Monday and Tuesday on as many as three bills on same-sex marriage.
Proponents say the measures are necessary to defend states’ rights and religious freedom against activist federal judges and gay rights zealots. Critics say the bills are blatant efforts to turn back the clock and deny equal treatment to people with a different sexual orientation or gender identity.
“Texas is pioneering a legislative effort to subvert a potential Supreme Court ruling on marriage and lock in discrimination against gay and transgender people and their families,” Kathy Miller, president of the left- leaning Texas Freedom Network, told reporters in a conference call Monday morning.
“If successful, the strategy could spread to other states, especially in the South,” she said. “But it definitely risks a major backlash from the business community and from Texas voters … that would damage the brand of Texas for a long time to come.”
Miller was alluding to controversies that flared in Indiana and Arkansas a couple of months ago after lawmakers in both states passed religious-refusal bills inspired by a spate of federal court victories by gays and lesbians seeking to overturn state bans of same-sex marriage.
The Texas bills are drawing national attention. Several reporters from national news media organizations participated in Monday’s press call.
Organizers hope to generate a groundswell of protests by Texans, especially to center-right members of the Texas House’s GOP leadership. Miller said bill opponents are less optimistic about their chances of stopping the bills in the Texas Senate. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has shown his eagerness to pass similar legislation by successfully persuading senators to suspend Senate rules recently to allow late filing of one such bill, she said.
Magnolia Republican Rep. Cecil Bell’s bill affecting county clerks who issue marriage licenses could be debated on the House floor as early as Tuesday. The bill would bar state and local officials from issuing, enforcing or recognizing same-sex marriage licenses, even if the Supreme Court declares gay marriage a constitutional right.
It also would penalize liberal counties such as Travis County, where a state judge already has ordered a lesbian couple be granted a marriage license, by making any county clerk who grants a same-sex marriage license fork over the $30 fee to the state – rather than keep it for local use.
Chuck Smith, executive director of the gay rights group Equality Texas, called it “a mean spirited piece of legislation.”
Smith said it would ignore Texans’ growing acceptance of gay marriage and inflict unnecessary pain.
“It will be yet another state-sanctioned slap in the face to lesbian and gay couples who simply want to make a lifetime commitment to the person that they love,” he said.
The bill could generate costly lawsuits if the Supreme Court strikes down Texas’ 2005 gay marriage ban, said Smith and Rebecca Robertson, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas’ legal and policy director.
Robertson said county clerks would be caught between conflicting orders from judges, much like their counterparts in Alabama. In Alabama, a federal district court judge struck down that state’s same-sex marriage ban, but the state’s highest-ranking judge ordered officials not to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.
“We’d absolutely be on the course that Alabama is on, where you just have chaos for the time being, until it’s sorted out,” she said.
As early as Monday, the full Senate could take up a bill protecting from lawsuits or other penalties any religious institution or its employees or clergy members that refuse to open facilities, provide services and sell goods to same-sex couples because it would violate “a sincerely held religious belief” to do so.
The House could take up a companion bill by McKinney GOP Rep. Scott Sanford as early as Tuesday.
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There is no such thing as faggot marriagte. If the faggots don't like it beat them. If sneakypete comes on this thread and starts talking pro faggot stuff. I will ban him.
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#1. To: sneakypete (#0)
Don't argue with me. I'll ban you. No more pro faggot propaganda from you will be tolerated. I don't like activists for faggots. Children are harmed by people like you when you lie and say it is some kind of equal rights. If you don't like it I don't give a shit.
One of the questions asked, when I posted an invitation to answer any questions, was this: "Pastor, does the Bible prohibit a man being married to more than one wife at one time? Since it is not against the law for me to live with and have sex with and have children with two women at the same time, why can't we three get married and continue and be married?" That is another example of what comes about from changing the definition of marriage to include more than the joining of one natural born woman to one natural born man.
Well, if the acceptance is "growing" from 4% to 5%, I think I can see why it's being ignored.
If you don't like it I don't give a shit. Bank on the bottle again,are you? Are you really so stupid when you are sober that you don't understand the difference between being pro-homosexual and pro-American? Trust me,your bigoted stand against equal rights for ALL Americans makes you as bigoted as Al Sharpton,but without all the money. And since you started this thread with your guns loaded to ban me,it seems you are now alao against free speech. Doing away with trial by a jury by your peers seems to be you next step. If banning me is what you need to feel studly,go for it. Unlike you,*I* am an American that believes we all have the right to our PERSONAL opinions regardless of how wrong and un-American they may be. The problem with wingnuts like you is you want your bigoted personal opinions to be enforced by government agents with guns and courts.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
How very Taliban of you. Or ISIS or ISIL.
Don't argue with me. I'll ban you. You can't change Mitt's sexual orientation by passing a law, or that of the people who voted for he/she/it either. Why would someone who's worried about child molesters vote for Mitt?
Sneakypete --- Unlike you,*I* am an American that believes we all have the right to our PERSONAL opinions regardless of how wrong and un-American they may be. The problem with wingnuts like you is you want your bigoted personal opinions to be enforced by government agents with guns and courts. You're both right, - in that gays living together are not 'married' in the religious sense, and that those same gays can have the 'opinion' that they are married. Let's face the facts. Governments in the USA have never been given the power to sanctify/favor religious practices, and they sure as hell shouldn't give them tax breaks or special benefits. --- Let's get govt OUT of marriage. And stone, -- if you think my opinion is pro-faggot, feel free to ban me too.
Why would anyone not related to him or not employed by him vote for him?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I don't trust dick suckers.
Who ever said you have to?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
55%-60% of the U.S. population?
If sneakypete comes on this thread and starts talking pro faggot stuff. I will ban him.
#2. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#3. To: A K A Stone (#0)
"Smith said it would ignore Texans’ growing acceptance of gay marriage ..."
#4. To: A K A Stone (#1)
Don't argue with me. I'll ban you. No more pro faggot propaganda from you will be tolerated. I don't like activists for faggots. Children are harmed by people like you when you lie and say it is some kind of equal rights.
#5. To: A K A Stone (#1)
Don't argue with me. I'll ban you.
#6. To: Fred Mertz (#5)
Children are harmedThe D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#7. To: sneakypete, A K A Stone, y'all (#4)
Poster Comment: There is no such thing as faggot marriagte. If the faggots don't like it beat them. If sneakypete comes on this thread and starts talking pro faggot stuff. I will ban him. --- AKA Stone
#8. To: hondo68 (#6)
Why would someone who's worried about child molesters vote for Mitt?
#9. To: sneakypete (#4)
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Trust me,your bigoted stand against equal rights for ALL Americans makes you as bigoted as Al Sharpton,but without all the money.
#10. To: A K A Stone (#9)
I don't trust dick suckers.
#11. To: A K A Stone (#9)
I don't trust dick suckers.
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