Texas judge officiates same-sex marriage, then quits Republican Party

[applegrove]

Texas judge officiates same-sex marriage, then quits Republican Party

By Jeff Taylor

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/10/texas-judge-officiates-sex-marriage-quits-republican-party/

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A Texas judge has quit the Republican Party after officiating his first same-sex marriage, deciding he had had enough of its intolerance.

Justice Terry Jennings will now be the only Democrat on the Texas First Court of Appeals after pulling the trigger on the decision he had been mulling over for years, with the encouragement of his children who wondered why he was staying with a party from which he was feeling increasingly alienated.

Jennings said when some mentioned that many Republican judges might not be willing to preside over a same-sex marriage, “that’s when I started thinking, Well maybe I’m not in the right party then.”

“Today’s Republican Party has chosen a dark path I cannot take,” Jennings said at a Democratic fundraising dinner over the weekend, where he officially made the announcement that he was switching parties.

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[tonyt53]

1. A man with morals! Good for him!

[herding cats]

2. That's how you take a stand against what the Republican Party has become!

Not with mealy mouthed comments, but with decisive actions!

[sheshe2]

3. I applaud his decision!

Excellent!

[Raster]

4. Yes! Yes! Yes!

[Dustlawyer]

5. We have an opportunity to flip educated Republicans!

The poorly educated fall for the hate and fear of RW propaganda. Until we bust up the MSM and redo the FCU we are stuck with brainwashed, angry and afraid Republican blue collar and small business types.

[DemonGoddess]

6. Wow!

[Plucketeer]

9. Good Judgement prevails

Let's hope the switch snowballs!

[DocMac]

10. Good for him.

Change is still coming.

[Hortensis]

11. The party leadership, legislators, and "base" are

well right of most conservatives, not just ones as moderate as this judge.

[TonyPDX]

12. Raised my opinion of Texas by 90%.

[Gothmog]

14. We are working hard in Texas to turn it blue

[Gothmog]

13. I was at the Johnson Rayburn Richards dinner when this judge spoke

It was a great speech

[applegrove]

15. Yeah. The GOP are outright gaslighting and it is finally too much.

[Portland_Anni]

16. My hat is off to him

Texas sorely needs more people with his courage and insight.

[Botany]

17. And just maybe this November Texas will turn a nice shade of blue.

Maybe not this year but very soon Texas will go blue and it will never turn red again.

[Scurrilous]

18. K & R

[LiberalLovinLug]

19. I always find it strange that you'all down there elect judges along party lines

That there even is such a thing as a Republican judge and a Democrat judge. That they run under a political party's name. It almost presupposes any verdict they issue. At the very least there would be peer pressure to rule certain ways to appeal to the party of choice of the majority of voters.

[LostinRed]

20. Welcome to the light side

Even if it took him awhile at least he realizes how far backwards the republicans have taken their party. They go low we go high.