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• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE FERS TO U.S. SUPREME COURT ON GAY MARRIAGE QUTN
• TEXAS AG WON'T FEND STATE AGENCY GAY MARRIAGE SU, CG BELIEFS
• TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL
• QUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE HAS ADVOT, EXPERTS ASKG: WHAT DO THIS TEXAS LAWMAKER WANT?GOP STATE REP. JAM WHE’S REQUT FOR OPN ED A STIR ON SOCIAL MEDIA, BAFFLG NSTUTNAL SCHOLARS AND ANGERG GAY RIGHTS ADVOT. WHE IS NNG FOR STATEWI OFFICE.REP. JAM WHE, R-HILLISTER, SPEAKS DURG A PRS NFERENCE HELD BY TEXAS PRISONS AIR-CONDNG ADVOT ON TUDAY, MARCH 12, 2019 AT THE JOHN H REAGAN STATE OFFICE BUILDG AT. WHE, WHO IS NNG THE GOP PRIMARY FOR AGRICULTURE MISSNER, LAST WEEK ASKED THE ATTORNEY GENERAL WHETHER PRIVATE CIZENS NEED TO REGNIZE SAME-SEX MARRIAG.(ASHLEY LANDIS / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)BY SAMI SPARBER AND LREN MCGGHY5:30 AM ON OCT 27, 2021 CDTLISTENAUSTIN — DO PRIVATE CIZENS TEXAS NEED TO REGNIZE GAY MARRIAG?THAT’S THE QUTN REP. JAM WHE, A REPUBLIN LAWMAKER NNG FOR STATEWI OFFICE, ASKED THE ATTORNEY GENERAL LAST WEEK. WHE’S REQUT FOR OPN ED A STIR ON SOCIAL MEDIA, BAFFLG NSTUTNAL SCHOLARS AND ANGERG GAY RIGHTS ADVOT.ADVERTISEMENTMORE THAN SIX YEARS AFTER THE U.S. SUPREME COURT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE NATNWI OBERGEFELL VS. HODG — AND WH FEW OTHER PROTECTNS FOR LGBTQ TEXANS — THEY WONRED, WHAT EXACTLY IS WHE’S POT?ADVERTISEMENTEXPERTS SAID THEY DIDN’T THK WHE’S REQUT WOULD HAVE ANY IMPACT ON CURRENT LAW, CHALKG UP TO POLIL POSTURG AHEAD OF A NSERVATIVE PRIMARY RACE. IT MAY BE PART OF A NSERVATIVE TREND TO LEAVE UNENFORCEABLE LAWS ON THE BOOKS SE THE LGS ARE REVERSED.POLIL POTSGET THE LATT POLICS NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHE 2015 OBERGEFELL CISN MA THE BAN ON SAME SEX-MARRIAGE TEXAS AND 12 OTHER STAT UNENFORCEABLE. BUT LAWMAKERS HAVE NEVER REMOVED THE LANGUAGE, WHICH VOTERS ENSHRED THE TEXAS CONSTUTN 2005. IN AN TERVIEW WH THE DALLAS MORNG NEWS, WHE SAID HE IS NOT ASKG ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN PAXTON TO REJECT THE URT’S LG ON GAY MARRIAGE.“SOME PEOPLE WERE SAYG, ‘OH HE’S ASKG TO SEE IF OBERGEFELL IS APPLIBLE TO TEXAS,’” WHE SAID. “NO, I’M NOT SAYG THAT. IT IS APPLIBLE TO TEXAS — AS APPLI TO ERNMENT OFFICIALS REGNIZG DIFFERENT MARRIAGE NSTCTS.”ADVERTISEMENTHE ADD: “BUT HOW DO APPLY TO PRIVATE CIZENS?”WHE DID NOT HAVE AN EXAMPLE FOR WHAT SUATN HE SEEKS TO ADDRS NOR DID HE SAY A SPECIFIC CINT SPURRED HIM TO ASK THE QUTN AT THIS TIME.ADVERTISEMENTHE MENTNED THE RIGHTS OF CLERGY TO REJECT GAY UNNS — BUT SAID THAT IS NOT THE SOLE REASON HE FILED THIS REQUT. THEN HE WAVED OFF — BUT DID NOT PLETELY REJECT — THAT HE WANTS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO WEIGH ON WHETHER BS N NY SERVIC TO SAME-SEX UPL.ADVERTISEMENT“I DON’T KNOW IF BS ARE PRIVATE CIZENS,” WHE SAID, WHILE ACKNOWLEDGG THEY MAY BE OWNED OR N BY PRIVATE CIZENS. “MAYBE A PRIVATE CIZEN ULD BE SOMEONE WHO SAYS THEY’RE A PREACHER. ... IT ULD BE A CHURCH AN BOARD.”WHE SAID HILLISTER BAPTIST CHURCH, WHERE HE ATTEND UNTIL RECENTLY, CHECKED S BYLAWS AFTER THE SUPREME COURT LG TO MAKE SURE FED MARRIAGE A WAY THAT WAS “NSISTENT WH CHURCH DOCTRE.”LEGAL TO TURN AWAY CTOMERS
• IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL TEXAS?

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

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 upl are terviewed by media while standg le to register for a marriage license on Friday, June 26, 2015 at the Dallas County Rerds Buildg Dallas, Texas.

Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnwi that year, a number of qutns rema regardg how and when private bs, ernments and dividuals mt regnize the unns.

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

Supreme Court se legalizg gay marriage appli to private March 8, opn mtee chair Virgia K. ”Breakg NewsGet the latt breakg news om North Texas and lawsu pendg before the Supreme Court volv Denver-area graphic artist Lori Smh, who says she do not want to create webs for gay weddgs due to her Christian beliefs. Colorado law bans bs om discrimatg agast gay people.

“Siar to your qutn, the petner asks the Court whether the law n require her, as a private cizen, to regnize same sex marriag as she pursu her livelihood, ” said Hoelscher, who add that Whe n file his requt aga if his qutns are still unanswered after the high urt was unsurprised by the rponse, and told The News that the Supreme Court se shows the issue of whether private cizens need to regnize gay unns is “still open for discsn. But legislators never removed the state’s unenforceable law outlawg gay unns, or another statute the urt stck down 2003 banng gay sexual Supreme Court will likely have oral argument at the end of the year the Colorado se, wh an opn probable next summer.

Courty First LibertyThe jtice, Dianne Hensley, sued the Commissn on Judicial Misnduct last month after issued a nonbdg warng over her yearslong refal to marry gay upl while ntug to marry heterosexual attorney general, Ken Paxton, a Republin, said he will not fend the missn the lawsu bee s actns nflict wh his views of the Constutn.

TEXAS AG WON'T FEND STATE AGENCY GAY MARRIAGE SU, CG BELIEFS

But Hensley, a Christian, argued she uld ntue officiatg straight marriag and refer gay upl elsewhere bee same-sex marriage nflicts wh her personal relig Gafford, right, forts his partner of 28 years, Jeff Sralla, left, as they stand before Judge Amy Clark Meachum to obta a time waiver at the Travis County Courthoe after the U.

Supreme Court led that same-sex upl have the right to marry natnwi, on June 26, 2015, At, Gay / AP fileThe missn’s warng last month ced a 2017 terview which Hensley told The Wa Tribune that followg the Obergefell cisn, she ially chose not to perform any marriag but then had a change of heart.

She said she served a “relig exemptn” om marryg gays as a “Bible-believg” Christian. Gay rights advot celebrated the urt's cisn as a step toward equaly for same-sex upl.

TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL

Those challeng, cludg a se agast Texas' ban on gay marriag, barreled through the urts. Supreme Court earlier this year took up four gay marriage s out of a Ccnati-based feral appeals urt. If the urt l that same-sex marriage bans are unnstutnal, s cisn uld legalize gay marriage natnwi.

Texas, the Supreme Court cisn that said that stat uldn’t ban people om havg gay sex.

In the early 2000’s, Paxton was a vol supporter of puttg gay people jail for what was then the crime of havg sex, somethg he believed was necsary for “public health” and to “disurage sexual activy outsi of marriage. The host brought up the possibily of overturng the 2003 Supreme Court cisn – and allowg stat to throw gay people jail for private, nsensual sex between adults – bee of the Court’s cisn this past Friday to overturn Roe v. The brief brgs up statistics that show that HIV h gay and bi men particularly hard but do not show how sodomy laws – which make preventn and treatment measur for HIV more difficult – are related to this, unls one were to assume that people actually cid not to be gay bee of this law.

QUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE HAS ADVOT, EXPERTS ASKG: WHAT DO THIS TEXAS LAWMAKER WANT?GOP STATE REP. JAM WHE’S REQUT FOR OPN ED A STIR ON SOCIAL MEDIA, BAFFLG NSTUTNAL SCHOLARS AND ANGERG GAY RIGHTS ADVOT. WHE IS NNG FOR STATEWI OFFICE.REP. JAM WHE, R-HILLISTER, SPEAKS DURG A PRS NFERENCE HELD BY TEXAS PRISONS AIR-CONDNG ADVOT ON TUDAY, MARCH 12, 2019 AT THE JOHN H REAGAN STATE OFFICE BUILDG AT. WHE, WHO IS NNG THE GOP PRIMARY FOR AGRICULTURE MISSNER, LAST WEEK ASKED THE ATTORNEY GENERAL WHETHER PRIVATE CIZENS NEED TO REGNIZE SAME-SEX MARRIAG.(ASHLEY LANDIS / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)BY SAMI SPARBER AND LREN MCGGHY5:30 AM ON OCT 27, 2021 CDTLISTENAUSTIN — DO PRIVATE CIZENS TEXAS NEED TO REGNIZE GAY MARRIAG?THAT’S THE QUTN REP. JAM WHE, A REPUBLIN LAWMAKER NNG FOR STATEWI OFFICE, ASKED THE ATTORNEY GENERAL LAST WEEK. WHE’S REQUT FOR OPN ED A STIR ON SOCIAL MEDIA, BAFFLG NSTUTNAL SCHOLARS AND ANGERG GAY RIGHTS ADVOT.ADVERTISEMENTMORE THAN SIX YEARS AFTER THE U.S. SUPREME COURT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE NATNWI OBERGEFELL VS. HODG — AND WH FEW OTHER PROTECTNS FOR LGBTQ TEXANS — THEY WONRED, WHAT EXACTLY IS WHE’S POT?ADVERTISEMENTEXPERTS SAID THEY DIDN’T THK WHE’S REQUT WOULD HAVE ANY IMPACT ON CURRENT LAW, CHALKG UP TO POLIL POSTURG AHEAD OF A NSERVATIVE PRIMARY RACE. IT MAY BE PART OF A NSERVATIVE TREND TO LEAVE UNENFORCEABLE LAWS ON THE BOOKS SE THE LGS ARE REVERSED.POLIL POTSGET THE LATT POLICS NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHE 2015 OBERGEFELL CISN MA THE BAN ON SAME SEX-MARRIAGE TEXAS AND 12 OTHER STAT UNENFORCEABLE. BUT LAWMAKERS HAVE NEVER REMOVED THE LANGUAGE, WHICH VOTERS ENSHRED THE TEXAS CONSTUTN 2005. IN AN TERVIEW WH THE DALLAS MORNG NEWS, WHE SAID HE IS NOT ASKG ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN PAXTON TO REJECT THE URT’S LG ON GAY MARRIAGE.“SOME PEOPLE WERE SAYG, ‘OH HE’S ASKG TO SEE IF OBERGEFELL IS APPLIBLE TO TEXAS,’” WHE SAID. “NO, I’M NOT SAYG THAT. IT IS APPLIBLE TO TEXAS — AS APPLI TO ERNMENT OFFICIALS REGNIZG DIFFERENT MARRIAGE NSTCTS.”ADVERTISEMENTHE ADD: “BUT HOW DO APPLY TO PRIVATE CIZENS?”WHE DID NOT HAVE AN EXAMPLE FOR WHAT SUATN HE SEEKS TO ADDRS NOR DID HE SAY A SPECIFIC CINT SPURRED HIM TO ASK THE QUTN AT THIS TIME.ADVERTISEMENTHE MENTNED THE RIGHTS OF CLERGY TO REJECT GAY UNNS — BUT SAID THAT IS NOT THE SOLE REASON HE FILED THIS REQUT. THEN HE WAVED OFF — BUT DID NOT PLETELY REJECT — THAT HE WANTS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO WEIGH ON WHETHER BS N NY SERVIC TO SAME-SEX UPL.ADVERTISEMENT“I DON’T KNOW IF BS ARE PRIVATE CIZENS,” WHE SAID, WHILE ACKNOWLEDGG THEY MAY BE OWNED OR N BY PRIVATE CIZENS. “MAYBE A PRIVATE CIZEN ULD BE SOMEONE WHO SAYS THEY’RE A PREACHER. ... IT ULD BE A CHURCH AN BOARD.”WHE SAID HILLISTER BAPTIST CHURCH, WHERE HE ATTEND UNTIL RECENTLY, CHECKED S BYLAWS AFTER THE SUPREME COURT LG TO MAKE SURE FED MARRIAGE A WAY THAT WAS “NSISTENT WH CHURCH DOCTRE.”LEGAL TO TURN AWAY CTOMERS

AUSTIN, Texas - As a newlywed lbian uple Texas celebrate fyg a statewi ban on gay marriage, the state's Republin attorney general is preparg to tell a urt Friday why should le their nuptials marriage license given to two At women - who succeed by seizg on a lg this week an unrelated tate squabble - thst Texas back to the natnal spotlight over gay marriage but didn't send same-sex upl shg to Texas Supreme Court acted quickly after an appeal om Attorney General Ken Paxton to block other potential gay marriag, makg the nuptials somewhat btersweet for Suzanne Bryant and Sarah Goodiend.

Texas is one of 13 stat where gay marriage remas outlawed. A state district judge raised the "severy and uncertaty" of her ndn grantg the women permissn to marry, sendg the uple scramblg through a Travis County clerk buildg se state Republin lears got wd and hours, the Texas Supreme Court had blocked other gay upl om gettg married unr siar special exceptns - but didn't addrs the women's marriage, which Paxton said he nsired that remas dispute, and Paxton's spokwoman, Cynthia Meyer, said their office will file addnal paperwork wh the state Supreme Court on Friday to argue their se. Greg Abbott also reaffirmed his support for Texas' nstutnal ban on same-sex marriage that voters overwhelmgly approved women were granted a one-time license after an At probate judge this week led the state's gay marriage ban unnstutnal an tate se that was unrelated to the uple.

IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL TEXAS?

"Bryant, an At lawyer who works on adoptns for same-sex upl, said she and her wife believe their marriage license is Phariss, who along wh his partner are leadg the Texas gay marriage lawsu feral urt, said he was "thrilled" by news of the nuptials even though 's unlikely to impact their bigger se. This is a very good day Texas for progrsively md people, much ls lbian and gay people, " said Steven Tomlson, who celebrated wh Goodiend and Bryant at their party Thursday night.

AUSTIN — Do private cizens Texas need to regnize gay marriag? Whe’s requt for opn ed a stir on social media, bafflg nstutnal scholars and angerg gay rights than six years after the U.

Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnwi Obergefell vs.