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Texas Republicans including lieutenant governor candidate Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton, who is running for attorney general have signed on to a friend of the court brief claiming that the states desire to ban same-sex marriage is in line with similar bans on bigamy, incest, pedophilia, and polygamy, The Dallas Morning News reports.
Patrick and Paxton are just two of the 61 Republican lawmakers who signed on to the Texas Conservative Coalitions brief in support of the states ban, which is currently being argued in the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. State Attorney General Greg Abbott argued that marriage is an issue best handled by the states, which is the only argument he can make before the higher court as of now, no circuit court has upheld a state ban on same-sex marriage. The friend of the court brief argued that restrictions on marriage relating to these moral considerations remain valid. Thus, the goal of actively trying to prevent those practices from becoming valid is entirely rational public policy.
But Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa sees it as pandering to an increasingly vocal minority within the Republican Party. This brief makes their intentions clear: rather than working towards equality and fairness, Patrick and Paxton want to marginalize, discriminate and spread antiquated ideas, he told The Morning News. Texans deserves leaders who know that love is love, and that its time to end the Republican culture of discrimination across our state.
The brief argued that supporting the same-sex marriage ban does not amount to discrimination, because the laws behind the ban apply equally to everyone. They were not enacted to disparage and injure, anyone. Nor were they enacted out of animosity against homosexuals. To the contrary, the laws were enacted with a desire to elevate the states legal recognition of marriage to a level that society has celebrated throughout history. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/07/texas-gop-officials-agree-legal-same-sex-marriage-will-cause-incest-and-pedophilia/
randys1
(16,286 posts)I just read another story where a Gay person was attacked and slashed with a knife while the attacker yelled anti Gay slurs.
These Texas politicians are GUILTY of that crime in NYC in a DIRECT manner.
Arrest these assholes, today!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)marriages, what is the damn deal. It is dumb asses like Dan Patrick which should cause everyone to think about voting for someone else.
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)to their brain washed and brain dead Morans. All to stay in power for the corporate money and influence they weld!