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Contents:

• TEXAS REPUBLINS APPROVE PLATFORM CONMNG GAY MARRIAGE, REJECTG 2020 ELECTN
• TEXAS GOP'S NEW PLATFORM LLS GAY PEOPLE 'ABNORMAL' AND REJECTS TRANS INTI
• IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL TEXAS?
• GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
• GAY MARRIAGE
• TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN PAXTON WON'T FEND STATE AGENCY GAY MARRIAGE SE
• STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS
• TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE FERS TO U.S. SUPREME COURT ON GAY MARRIAGE QUTN
• REPUBLINS WILL BAN AND CRIMALIZE GAY MARRIAGE IF THEY W IN 2022
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

TEXAS REPUBLINS APPROVE PLATFORM CONMNG GAY MARRIAGE, REJECTG 2020 ELECTN

The Texas Republin Party held s annual state nventn Hoton last weekend wh a platform that clud approvg a rolutn nmng homosexualy, rejectg the legimacy of the 2020 electn and rebg the state's senr senator. The GOP platform lls homosexualy an abnormal liftyle choice.

TEXAS GOP'S NEW PLATFORM LLS GAY PEOPLE 'ABNORMAL' AND REJECTS TRANS INTI

The Texas Republin Party unveiled s official posn on LGBTQ issu over the weekend, fg homosexualy as an "abnormal liftyle choice" and also opposg "all efforts to validate transgenr inty.

"Thoands of Republin activists met at the party’s biennial nventn Hoton on Saturday to agree to the party's platform on a range of issu, cludg the rejectn of the 2020 electn rults and a ll to repeal of the 1965 Votg Right Act, which was enacted to prevent discrimatn agast Black a sectn tled "Homosexualy and genr issu, " the party suggted that LGBTQ people should not be legally protected om discrimatn and that beg gay or trans is a choice. "Homosexualy is an abnormal liftyle choice, " the 40-page rolutn reads. "We believe there should be no grantg of special legal entlements or creatn of special stat for homosexual behavr, regardls of state of orig, and we oppose any crimal or civil penalti agast those who oppose homosexualy out of fah, nvictn, or belief tradnal valu.

IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL TEXAS?

"The Texas Republin Party blocked the Log Cab Republins, a longstandg group of gay nservativ — which also supports many of the party’s anti-LGBTQ polici — om havg a booth at Saturday's nventn.

"The party's new official stance on sexual orientatn and genr inty also cis wh a recent natnwi surge charged rhetoric om media punds and policians about LGBTQ recent months, nservative lawmakers, televisn punds and other public figur have acced opponents of a newly enacted Florida tn legislatn — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law — of tryg to “groom” or “doctrate” children. The word “groomg” has long been associated wh mischaracterizg LGBTQ people, particularly gay men and transgenr women, as child sex abers.

Consirg that all stat have their own marriage laws, you might still be wonrg: is gay marriage legal Texas? In fact, until 2020, one unty held that would not issue marriage licens to gay upl.

GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

Are you wonrg what else there is to know about gay marriage Texas? Is Gay Marriage Legal Texas?

Gay marriage has been legal Texas sce the U. Gay marriage has been legal Texas sce 2015.

GAY MARRIAGE

Hodg on June 26, 2015, all Texas unti except Irn County began issug marriage licens to gay upl.

TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN PAXTON WON'T FEND STATE AGENCY GAY MARRIAGE SE

Many unti the state began issug same-sex marriage licens wh jt a few hours of the lg, which stated that same-sex upl have the fundamental right to marry and bans on gay marriage at the state level are unnstutnal. In the first three months after the Supreme Court lg, about 2, 500 gay upl were married the state of Texas. The History of Gay Marriage Texas.

Gay marriage hasn't always been legal Texas, and some unti held out even after the U.

Before the Supreme Court lg that termed that state bans agast gay marriage were unnstutnal, was not legal for same-sex upl to get married Texas.

STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS

This same statute also prohibed any polil subdivisn of the state, any agency, or the state self om givg effect to civil unns or gay marriag that occurred other jurisdictns.

TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE FERS TO U.S. SUPREME COURT ON GAY MARRIAGE QUTN

There was a bill named Hoe Bill 1300 that would have repealed the prohibn agast gay marriage Texas as a part of the Legislature’s 2013 season.

REPUBLINS WILL BAN AND CRIMALIZE GAY MARRIAGE IF THEY W IN 2022

Hodg termed that state bans agast gay marriage were unnstutnal. There have been a number of notable s the history of Texas state law regardg gay marriage and divorce the state.

Feral District Judge Orlando Garcia was assigned the se, and he led on Febary 26, 2014, agast the ban on gay marriage Texas. Supreme urt led that state bans agast gay marriage were unnstutnal, this se was still pendg the Fifth Circu.

Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. Gay marriage, also known as same-sex marriage, is the marriage of people of the same sex or genr.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Gay marriag ma progrs the 1980s, when Berkeley, California, pass the untry’s first domtic partnership law. Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage 2003.

California and Connecticut legalized gay marriage 2008, followed by Iowa, Vermont, and New Hampshire. On November 6, 2012, Mae, Maryland, and Washgton beme the first stat to legalize gay marriage through a popular vote. Dpe this, not all stat are abidg and have enacted nstutnal or statutory bans on gay marriage known as “Defense of Marriage” acts.