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To: bgill

It ain’t over yet.

Texas Attorney General Encourages Clerks to Refuse Marriage Licenses to Gay Couples
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/06/29/texas_attorney_general_encourages_clerks_to_refuse_marriage_licenses_to.html

County clerks and their employees retain religious freedoms that may allow accommodation of their religious objections to issuing same-sex marriage licenses. The strength of any such claim depends on the particular facts of each case.

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/opinions/opinions/51paxton/op/2015/kp0025.pdf
KEN PAXTON
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
June 28, 2015

We lost at the Alamo and Goliad as well. It didn’t end there.


36 posted on 07/03/2015 6:53:26 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

Yes, I know what Paxton said but there is also the time and energy which these small counties face even with pro bono legal help. Until these counties know for 100% certain they could win over the federal then they aren’t going to risk it.


37 posted on 07/03/2015 7:04:00 AM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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