Texas Same-Sex Couples File Lawsuit To Overturn Marriage Ban

[Tx4obama]

Source: Reuters (HuffPo)

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Two same-sex couples in Texas filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn that state's eight-year-old constitutional amendment that bars gay marriage, their lawyer said on Wednesday.

Arguments could be heard as early as January in a federal court in San Antonio in the case trying to nullify the 2005 amendment that says: "marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman."

San Antonio attorney Daniel McNeel Lane, the lead counsel for both couples, said current Texas law banning same-sex marriage runs counter to the U.S. Constitution and is a "badge of inferiority."

"Just as the judicial branch protected the fundamental right to marry and established that discriminatory laws could not prevent mixed-race couples from exercising that right, the courts again must step in to protect the marriage right," Lane told Reuters.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/27/texas-same-sex-marriage-lawsuit_n_4353006.html

[RKP5637]

1. Good for them! Texas, wears "a badge of inferiority." n/t

[dballance]

2. Rick "good hair" and "oops" idiot is the epitomy of TX pols but not the people.

Rick Perry and his like-minded fellow GOP politicians embarrass the thinking people of TX. I guess they didn't really learn anything from Lawrence v. TX or the SCOTUS ruling about DOMA.

It's too bad that a state full of such great people is represented by such idiots.

[Tx4obama]

3. Well, us thinking Texans will be voting for Wendy Davis for Texas Governor in 2014

... and Perry won't be running - so bye bye Ricky

[dballance]

4. I know you will. That's why I made sure to distance you from the RW politicians. :)

Good luck! I have a friend in Dallas who is working on the Davis campaign very closely.

[Dustlawyer]

8. Thank you for knowing and appreciating the difference!

If not for Tom Delay's underhanded tactics of re-districting in the middle of a decade instead of only after the census, we would be blue already! We do have more than our fair share of Tea Party nut jobs, but we also have a lot of good, empathetic people! Happy Thanksgiving!

[Laelth]

5. I like seeing all the progressive activism coming out of Texas these days.

Thanks for keeping us informed on these topics, Tx4obama.



-Laelth

[awoke_in_2003]

6. Go for it...

I hope that one day all states wake up on this issue.

[SoapBox]

7. Bravo