Posted on 02/19/2015 7:08:11 PM PST by GeronL
AUSTIN — Hours after a Texas county clerk issued the state's first same-sex marriage license, Texas' attorney general said the marriage is void.
Attorney General Ken Paxton said Thursday that the Texas Supreme Court granted his request to stay two court rulings declaring Texas' ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
"The Court's action upholds our state constitution and stays these rulings by activist judges in Travis County," Paxton said in a statement. "The same-sex marriage license issued by the Travis County Clerk is void, just as any license issued in violation of state law would be. I will continue to defend the will of the people of Texas, who have defined marriage as between one man and one woman, against any judicial activism or overreach."
According to the Travis County clerk's office, Judge David Wahlberg signed a state court order Thursday, commanding Travis County Clerk Dana Debeauvoir to "cease and desist relying on the unconstitutional Texas prohibitions against same-sex marriage as a basis for not issuing a marriage license specifically to Plaintiffs Sarah Goodfriend and Suzanne Bryant" because Goodfriend has ovarian cancer.
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AG Ken Paxton said this:
This morning, a rogue state District Judge in Austin instructed the Travis County Clerk to certify a marriage license for a same sex couple. That license is invalid, just as any license issued in violation of state law would be.
I took immediate action, asking the Texas Supreme Court to stay this proceeding. This afternoon, the Texas Supreme Court granted my request to stay two court rulings that declared Texas’ marriage law unconstitutional. As Attorney General, I will continue to defend the will of the people of Texas, who have defined marriage as between one man and one woman, against any judicial activism or overreach.
Impeach the judge!
I’m in Florida ... Has anyone seen Pam Bondi’s spine !!!!
By the way, how did Scott Walker respond to rulings on this issue?
I totally agree! That judge is a criminal if you ask me.
I certainly hope so!
The rogue judges and clerks have done this in state after state in the last year......
HE CAVED LIKE MY EX-REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR TOM CORBETT HERE IN PA..........
Bump.
Freegards
federal judges do not think that state constitutions and state laws matter
This is part of the Turn Texas Blue at all costs campaign being conducted by the left. Austin, of course, is the continuing hotbed for this crap.
bump
God ... give us more of these
40% of Hispanics voted for real (and anti-amnesty) conservatives like Paxton and Abbott, I don’t think we are gonna turn blue soon!
BTTT!
Was it Andrew Jackson who dared the judges to enforce their rulings?
Legit question. What are they gonna do if a governor and AG do that?
Don’t we have the right to ignore unconstitutional rulings by judges who try to make their own law?
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