Posted on 05/12/2015 7:06:48 PM PDT by sickoflibs
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Racing both a U.S. Supreme Court decision on gay marriage and legislative deadlines, Texas Republicans pushed ahead Tuesday toward putting the state at the forefront of resistance if same-sex weddings are ruled constitutional.
Nearly every Republican in the Texas House is backing a measure that would prohibit state and local officials from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Less than three weeks remain in Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's first session, and the bill must clear the House by midnight Thursday to advance.
If signed by Abbott, the bill would aim to defy the Supreme Court if it legalizes gay marriage, laying the groundwork for Texas to potentially raise new legal battles over its ability to regulate marriage licenses.
"It would certainly put the state in a position to challenge," said Republican state Rep. Cecil Bell, who filed the bill shortly after a Texas judge allowed a lesbian couple to wed despite a statewide ban on gay marriage.
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The entire Show of the court is fraud:
1: Marriage was never a right nor is it a privilege - try to marry your sister to see that fact - thus its not a civil rights claim and the federal courts lack jurisdiction on the issue.
2: One-man, one-woman marriage is an establishment of religion specifically the torah and the bible. As such the government is barred “Shall not” from making any law respecting any establishment of religion.
3: Both Kagen and Ginsberg have direct conflicts of interest in the case they had before them as they both officiated at fake marriages. As such, under every Judaical ethics’ rules they were required to recuse themselves from the hearing but failed to do so.
4. None of the forgoing arguments - which are decisive - were presented.
She pretty much told us this when she trashed Sarah Palin recently
She and others are only in it to trash conservatives. They know they can’t win. They most likely will be compensated for their betrayal.
Libs best analogy is the interracial marriage case,
Courts wont let states ban interracial marriage,
So now gays are the new blacks, if you marry heterosexuals then you must marry gays, to each other, or its discrimination against gays.
Gays=new blacks = same sex marriage.
Anthony Kennedy, the most durable of the Reagan legacy
Hmm, I might need to move to Texas.
Why aren’t other states joining the fight. So many are tired of the forced faggotry and everything that goes with it
Charles Murray, “By The People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission”
Will be declared unconstitutional within 5 minutes of being passed.
Courts have NO RESPECT for the 10th amendment, and a perverted understanding of the 14th amendment.
It will take much longer than that but otherwise I made the same prediction here.
LOL..love it
Good for TEXAS and the folks who live there.It would be TEXAS that would tell the men in black to shove it regarding the faggot marriage crap.
Lol
Utah passed amendment 3 to our constitution, one man, one woman, only to be usurped by black robed bastards. Good luck with that, Texas.
Ha ha!!! Love it :) (may have to borrow)
California twice passed Prop 8 which banned gay marriage...twice the courts overturned the clear intent of the voters..... so why do you think Californians would be happy about getting sodomites from Texas?
As my DI once said ‘...only two things come from Texas, and I don’t see any horns on your head!”
THANK YOU TEXAS
Until the States are willing to insist on their powers under the 10th Amendment and to refuse to kowtow to unconstitutional “rulings”, we will continue down memory lane (that’s the lane where Freedom is just a dimming memory).
That’s probably a good sign although I’m suspicious of the TX Republican Establishment. I think they’re good at bluff and bluster like Rick Perry’s putting the guard on the border right before last year’s election to look good and Abbott’s ordering the monitoring of those military exercises and so on.
When Arizona’s legislature sent a religious freedom bill to then Republican Governor Jan Brewer the LGBT activists were in a fit along with John McCain and Mitt Romney, who tweeted against the bill. Brewer vetoed it.
Then we had the sinking of the religious freedom bills opposed by the LGBT activists in Indiana and Arkansas in late March this year with pressure from the big corporations pivotal.
This kind of legislation ends up in federal courts where TX will lose I suspect making it look like symbolic posturing.
I would have more faith in what the TX Republicans are doing if the political elites and business elites would come down on them for doing it.
Same thing applies with Marriage in all cases as its not a right nor a privilege and is an establishment of religion, the Federal Courts, congresses etc lack jurisdiction on Marriage - the 14th does not apply.
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