Posted on 02/19/2015 8:31:53 AM PST by GIdget2004
Two Austin women were legally married Thursday morning after a Travis County judge ordered the county clerk to issue a marriage license.
Sarah Goodfriend and Suzanne Bryant, together almost 31 years, said their vows before Rabbi Kerry Baker while standing in front of the Travis County Clerk’s Office sign on Airport Boulevard.
The couple was denied a license in the same office building eight years ago.
But on Thursday morning, state District Judge David Wahlberg, petitioned by a lawyer for Goodfriend and Bryant, ordered Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir to grant the couple a marriage license.
The ceremony was a mix of personal – with friends and their teenage daughters, Dawn and Ting, standing nearby – and public statement, with photos of their vows in front of the county sign.
“It’s very exciting,” Bryant said before the wedding. “My little one was worried about missing her history class. I said we’ll be making history.”
After the ceremony, the couple went back inside the county office to formally register their marriage.
In their petition to Wahlberg, the couple said the inability to obtain a marriage license was causing them irreparable harm, particularly because Goodfriend has been diagnosed and treated for ovarian cancer.
Saying they had no adequate legal remedy to enforce their right to marry, the couple asked Wahlberg to issue a restraining order directing DeBeauvoir to issue a marriage license and waive the 72-hour waiting period.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
If it is illegal how the hell can a judge order them to be married and have it legal?
Look if these sick mentally disturbed homosexuals want to have their sham then go to MA or the north east instead of forcing us down here to be told they are married.
They are not married , nor will they ever be with us here.
Abomination
The clerk should have refused to follow an unlawful order by the judge.
whatever...God does not recognise it
In these modern times, perhaps the hero cowpoke and Old Paint would eventually have their special relationship solemnized by the State of Texas. God help the baker that refuses to bake them a cake!
Order to grant and an order to waive? Quick, let’s get this done before the other is tossed out! Why would anyone follow such an order? Unless they were in on it...
Austin (Travis County) is the San Francisco of Texas. The judge is a Democrat. The County Clerk is a Democrat. Every elected official in the County is a Democrat.
Yep.
This comes on the heels of a ruling issued Tuesday of this week.
snip
A Travis County judge ruled Tuesday that the Texas ban on same-sex marriage was
unconstitutional, but there was no rush to the altar after county officials —
scrambling to understand the impact of the judge’s 3 p.m. order — decided
against issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, at least for now.
Travis County Probate Judge Guy Herman ruled as part of an estate fight in
which Austin resident Sonemaly Phrasavath sought to have her eight-year
relationship to Stella Powell deemed to have been a common-law marriage. Powell died last summer of colon cancer.
Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir, who praised Herman for his ruling,
said she will confer with county lawyers to determine her options.
end snip.
http://www.statesman.com/news/news/travis-judge-rules-gay-marriage-ban-unconstitution/nkC2C/
Evil reigns in America.
the San Francisco of Texas
I know. Here in Houston we have the homosexual agenda pushing Mayor Porker. Not to mention SheJack! Ugh!
The judge ordered the county clerk to "stop relying on unconstitutional Texas prohibitions against same-sex marriage" as a basis for denying the couple a marriage license.
impeach the judge. Clearly acting against the laws of the state of Texas.
I was born in Travis County. I left in the 90s and am never going back.
The Austin Court of Appeals may or may not reverse the ruling since it is mostly controlled by Democrats. The Texas Supreme Court will definitely reverse the ruling, but by then there will be 1000s of homosexual “marriages” around the state.
Unfortunately, in a few months the U.S. Supreme Court is going to “find” a previously unnoticed Constitutional right to homosexual marriage hidden in the emanations from penumbra (next to the freedom from religion clause) and that will be that. The only chance of ever reversing it will be if we get a strong conservative like Cruz elected President and he is able to replace some of the far left wing liberals on the Court.
The Constitution says whatever 5 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices say it says. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
The clerk should be fired
Dallas County elected a lesbian sheriff
Void it, NOW, Gov. Abbott.
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