Comments on: Texans Ban All Marriage

By: Cvett84

Cvett84 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:18:00 +0000

I certainly wish I knew this earlier I would have moved to TEXAS instead of Colorado. Finally a state who has seen the light

By: Sunday in Outer Blogness: It’s All in Your Head Edition! | Main Street Plaza

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:22:15 +0000

[...] The gay marriage debate had some funnies this week, just ask Chris Buttars! And Texas — in an effort to ban gay marriage and anything like unto it — got a little overzealous with its last constitutional amendment and accidentally banned all marriage. Oops. See here and here. [...]

By: Great Idea!

Great Idea! — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:07:45 +0000

Finally – a state doing the right thing.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:09:42 +0000

Am I the only one who, when they read this line:

“…marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman.”

thought they meant that only one marriage was allowed in the entire state, and once the first marriage took place everyone else had to wait for one of them to kick the bucket?

Just me then?

By: benjdm

benjdm — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:55:14 +0000

I, for the life of me, can’t see how civil liberties can be up for a vote.

How else do they get to be legal? The Bill of Rights was voted on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights#Ratification_process

By: WCLPeter

WCLPeter — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:05:57 +0000

I don’t really pay much attention to what happens in the States at a “local” level, but this seems like a wasted opportunity to me.

The people voted for a law indicating the State would no longer be able to sanction marriages, or anything like a marriage. Since I’m pretty sure the State continued to issue marriage licenses, I’m surprised a gay rights group didn’t sue the state of Texas for failure to comply with the will of the people.

It would have been a goldmine PR campaign and I’m shocked they didn’t take the opportunity to use it.

By: littlejohn

littlejohn — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:59:40 +0000

You may be able to prevent Texans from marrying, but unfortunately, no one can stop them from breeding.

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:25:24 +0000

I am all for getting rid of couple-privilege and just making marriage be legally what it already is socially- whatever the hell two (or more) people want it to be. All the legal benefits can and should be bestowed on whoever the sheath of paperwork you fill out says they should go to. And then we can all dance around a maypole.*

Till then, of course, I will support gay marriage at the polls, should it ever come to my state, which it probably won’t, even though IOWA did it, and isn’t that a little embarrassing?

*This is not optional, people.

By: muggle

muggle — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:15:48 +0000

I’m with Vas on this. I, for the life of me, can’t see how civil liberties can be up for a vote. This… Proposition 8… That’s all they are, civil rights put to a vote.

I’m also real tired of marriage being called religious. Um, no, only if it’s done in church. Um, marriage is marriage whether recognized by some religious sect or not.

(Though my husband and my in-laws teased me for the four years of my marriage that he got me to marry him in church because the town hall, his hometown, was a converted church that had gone out of business. I should have known the marriage was doomed with that bad omen.)

By: Mister Trickster

Mister Trickster — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:59:46 +0000

Hey, it was also Texans who noticed the hilarity–Go Houston lawyers!