1. Gov. Ricky and attorney general Greg Abbott want to assure the good people of Texas: They will fight to keep a Dallas gay couple legally wed, to protect the sanctity of traditional marriage.
2. Dallas ISD board president Adam Medrano is accusing fellow board members of pulling a play from Gov. Ricky’s book: Don’t like what’s on a public meeting’s agenda? Conspire to get the meeting canceled.
3. So you’re Gov. Ricky’s cousin. You served on his re-election campaign steering committee. You’re enjoying an evening out on your backyard deck, just you and your shotgun. Long story short, you end up dead. Rest in peace, knowing that Gov. Ricky ”couldn’t pick [you] out of a lineup.”
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Why, exactly, should the police be called when someone is holding a shotgun on his own private property? How is this a disturbance?
I think the lede in the divorce story was that the judge ruled that state’s ban on gay marriage violates the U.S. Constitution.
The more the “sanctity of marriage” crowd fights this thing, the less relevant it makes their political party. Too bad there isn’t a Marriage Purity Panel whose members can be thrown out and replaced with Perry cronies. Or is there?
Eventually, isn’t the guy gonna run out of cronies?
Here’s to you, James Richard Perry –
Real Man of Genius!
@Trey: The only thing I could think of is that it would, indeed, be a little disturbing if you were playing the back nine in plain view of someone sitting on a porch with a shotgun. It’s a little creepy.
But I think the point was that no matter the situation, it’s ridiculous that Perry disavowed knowing a cousin *who sat on his steering committee.* In a statement about his death. I think “no comment” might’ve even been classier.
I am so confused. We are against gay marriage, so we don’t let gay people marry each other in Texas. So these gay guys move to Texas and, wishing to be good citizens, seek a divorce to comply with our law. And we tell them that we do not approve of gay marriage, so you gay guys can’t get a divorce and have to stay married to each other. Man, politics is so confusing.
Perhaps Perry and Abbot should stand in front of the courthouse doors and refuse entrance to the couple who are trying to get a divorce. That’s worked before, right?
Not to point out the obvious, but, if the state of Texas doesn’t recognize gay marriage, why would it grant a divorce decree? The state of Texas doesn’t consider these two married in the first place. IJS.
The judge is essentially overriding the state constitution in this case by first recognizing the marriage and then decreeing divorce. It’s not a judge’s job to do that.
Trey
I don’t know what is wrong with it. Jed Clampett use to do it all the time.
So Texas can just arbitrarily refuse to recognize another state’s marriage?
Excuse me — did we already secede and nobody told me?
As someone just pointed out elsewhere, the state’s action of blocking the gay couple’s divorce could lead us to assume that they support gay marriage.
It’s not arbitrary.
States are not required to recognize marriages performed in other states if they violate their own public policies. I’m not saying I agree with the gay marriage ban in Texas (I don’t), but if the state doesn’t recognize gay marriage in the first place, how could it decree a divorce?
Under the US Constitution, “Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State.” Typcially, judgments from the courts in one state must be enforced in every other state without exception. However, state statutes do not get as much deference because the court where a dispute is pending can choose to apply that state’s law to the dispute. So in the particular case here, the AG likely is arguing that Texas does not recognize same sex marriage and, thus, cannot grant a divorce even if another state allowed the marriage to take place (a marriage is not a judgment, so therefore cannot be “enforced”). The gay couple probably is arguing that the status of the marriage was determined lawfully in the state where it occurred and all they are doing is asking the Texas courts to apply the pre-existing Texas divorce laws in the same way to this marriage as the courts would to any other marriage.
I want free ice cream! Why can’t the State of Texas grant me that? I want it!
The gay couple will find out what straight couples already are well aware of – the divorce attorneys with the help of the judge will end up with all of their $$$ no matter what the outcome.