Greg Abbott went to law school with plaintiff in gay marriage suit

[PDittie]

What does Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott have in common with Mark Phariss, one of the plaintiffs who sued the state to challenge its gay marriage ban?

They were law school classmates. They knew each other. Phariss tells KERA they were good friends.

And now the attorney general and Phariss, an attorney who lives in Plano with his long-time partner, are on opposite sides of Texas’ brewing battle over gay marriage.

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Phariss also says he flew to Abbott’s bedside in 1984 when Abbott was hit by a falling tree limb and paralyzed.

They haven’t talked in about 10 years, but they exchange Christmas cards.

“He was a very good friend then and I consider him a very good friend now,” Phariss told KERA.

http://keranews.org/post/greg-abbott-went-law-school-plaintiff-gay-marriage-suit-he-s-fighting

Politics makes strange... nemmind.

[Tx4obama]

1. That is quite interesting. n/t

[TxDemChem]

2. Dun dun dun...

Well, things just got awkward.

[Tx4obama]

3. Article on link below with additional info

Here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/greg-abbott-mark-phariss_n_4878327.html

[Rstrstx]

4. If the Davis campaign were run like a Republican's...

...there'd already be a whisper campaign that they were homosexual lovers years ago.