Posted on 04/30/2013 8:00:22 AM PDT by fwdude
The Texas Constitution bans the city of Austin, Travis County and area school districts from offering domestic partner benefits to employees in same-sex relationships, according to a legal opinion released Monday by Attorney General Greg Abbott.
Domestic partnerships, as recognized by the local governments, are close enough to the definition of marriage to violate a constitutional amendment banning same-sex unions that 76 percent of Texas voters approved in 2005, the opinion stated.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
Need to crackdown on this crap
I’ll be helping to do just that. Will be making a formal complain to the AG about Fort Worth’s policy.
Sodomy is no basis for marriage. Homosexuals simply want to screw employers out of healthcare benefits. If employers did not offer those benefits the homosexuals would never have brought up trying to call each other “spouses”. It has always been about the money. It started during the early 1980’s when AIDS was in full swing and homosexuals didn’t have health care coverage so they wanted “spousal benefits” to get it.
Thank you Greg Abbott!
How did Cuomo advertise the quest for gay marriage in NYS...it will provide economic benefits. Apparently they have big weddings and honeymoon in NYC..
Hopefully, our next governor.
Funny, I don’t know of any state that has “weddings and honeymoons” as their prime economic activity. It’s a red herring.
Hopefully, our next governor.”
He would make a great governor but then we would lose the best Attorney General in all of the 50 states. Because of that I would rather he’d stay as AG.
I am more worried about Dewhurst and Patterson. Although Patterson is fiscally conservative, like most Republicans in Austin he socially sides with Democrats and wants to increase the guest worker program substantially. Next election in Texas IMO may very well determine whether Texas turns Blue.
I don’t know how we survived Ann Richards.
Well, maybe we WERE mortally wounded by that administration.
I don’t know how we survived Ann Richards.”
You mean Ms. Big Hair? A whole lot has changed in the 17 years since she was governor. 9/11, the growth of the internet and loss of privacy, open borders, Federal government and entitlement growth, libs from other states moving to Texas, the Gay movement, downfall of morals.....
No other large state with such a huge population has been able to retain any resemblance to being Conservative - either fiscally or socially. Seems like Austin makes a jab at the fiscal responsibility but socially they are in the toilet as far as I am concerned, and it has spread to our members of Congress in DC.
Ooh, my company is going to hate this.
Gonna have to re-do insurance for ~2000 Austinites.
Oh, just school districts. Should have read a little closer.
Only political entities: school districts, cities, counties, etc.
I don’t think the liberals have heard about this yet... all’s quiet outside.
The comments are fun :)
Yeah, Austin is our San FranFreako.
If they want to throw away their money on non-procreative relationships I have half a mind to tell them go ahead. Just don’t wast state money on such dead-end unions.
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