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Attempt to block same-sex marriages in Texas is turned back
Washington Post ^ | 05/15/2015 | Sandya Somashekhar

Posted on 05/15/2015 7:43:14 PM PDT by GIdget2004

The Texas legislature early Friday failed to advance a proposal to prohibit local officials from granting marriage licenses to gay couples, a measure viewed as an effort to preempt an expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling next month regarding gay unions.

The measure died when a Republican campaign to push it through the Texas House before a midnight deadline was stymied by Democratic delaying tactics.

If the measure had reached the floor, it appeared to have sufficient support to clear the Republican-controlled chamber.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; ssm
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1 posted on 05/15/2015 7:43:14 PM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

Texas? Say it ain’t so.


2 posted on 05/15/2015 7:45:35 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: doc1019

I smell Strauss in this somewhere.


3 posted on 05/15/2015 7:46:49 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: GIdget2004
And Dell Computer fought against this bill? I'm posting on a Dell machine - but not for long!

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

4 posted on 05/15/2015 7:48:49 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
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5 posted on 05/15/2015 7:49:16 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: GIdget2004

Seems to me that if the Republican majority really wanted it, the Democrat minority would not have been able to stop it.


6 posted on 05/15/2015 7:49:38 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

As I noted above, I well imagine that Joe Strauss worked to push against this bill.


7 posted on 05/15/2015 7:51:25 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: GIdget2004

By the way, the party break down in the Texas House is 98 Republicans and 52 Democrats.


8 posted on 05/15/2015 7:54:18 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Army Air Corps

Had to be.

It’s nuts.


9 posted on 05/15/2015 7:54:46 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: GIdget2004

“...The measure died when a Republican campaign to push it through the Texas House before a midnight deadline was stymied by Democratic delaying tactics.

If the measure had reached the floor, it appeared to have sufficient support to clear the Republican-controlled chamber....”
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‘RAT “delaying tactics” would not be enough to derail this legislation. It is near certain that the duplicitous RINO Joe Straus (Speaker of the Texas House) was involved and was pulling the strings to derail it. As long as Joe Straus is Speaker, the Texas House cannot be considered a “Republican-controlled chamber”.


10 posted on 05/15/2015 7:57:59 PM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: EternalVigilance

Will this backfire on the Democrats? Don’t count on it, but I hope so.


11 posted on 05/15/2015 8:00:29 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: Army Air Corps
I think you are correct.

That was my first thought. Strauss..

I'll be making some calls and sending some messages.

/johnny

12 posted on 05/15/2015 8:01:52 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: GIdget2004

Hecky durn. It is always amazing, when “supposedly” well informed puzzies, get puzzeled by ego centric puzzism. Ain’t that somethin’.


13 posted on 05/15/2015 8:04:09 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: House Atreides

Will No One Rid Us of This Meddlesome Speaker?


14 posted on 05/15/2015 8:04:20 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Strauss is Boehner, in a smaller suit.


15 posted on 05/15/2015 8:06:49 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: GIdget2004

I have entirely given up expending any energy whatsoever in giddy hope that these flares of light will come to fruition.

This stuff is good fodder for web hits and ledes on stories and TV, and then “poof”.

Much better to keep walking and ring the bell if and when it is a fete accompli.


16 posted on 05/15/2015 8:22:16 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: ConorMacNessa; Army Air Corps

Michael Dell, Austin, Texas
Joseph Strauss, Austin, Texas

Shall we follow the money, maybe?


17 posted on 05/15/2015 8:25:00 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: doc1019

So even Texas has gone f____t?


18 posted on 05/15/2015 8:26:52 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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We have a Speaker of the House that makes Boehner look like a tower of strength.


19 posted on 05/15/2015 8:32:26 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Only two things come from Texas, Steers and Queers.


20 posted on 05/15/2015 8:34:18 PM PDT by dfwgator
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