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Contents:

• GAY COUPLE BE FIRST TO WED TEXAS
• THIS GAY COUPLE OF MORE THAN 50 YEARS WAS THE FIRST TO GET MARRIED IN DALLAS AFTER SUPREME COURT RULG
• SAME-SEX COUPLE GETS MARRIED IN TEXAS, AFTER JUDGE DEFI GAY-MARRIAGE BAN
• FIRST GAY UPLE IS LEGALLY MARRIED TEXAS
• FIRST GAY UPLE LEGALLY MARRIED TEXAS
• AT GAY COUPLE BE FIRST TO WED TEXAS, DPE BAN
• THE FIRST 72 HOURS OF LEGAL GAY MARRIAGE TEXAS HAVE BEEN EVENTFUL
• WHERE CAN GAY COUPL LEGALLY GET MARRIED TEXAS?
• IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL TEXAS?
• TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL
• GAY MARRIAGE LAWS IN TEXAS
• SAME-SEX COUPLE GETS MARRIED IN TEXAS, AFTER JUDGE DEFI GAY-MARRIAGE BAN

GAY COUPLE BE FIRST TO WED TEXAS

Two women were legally married At, Texas Thursday morng, beg the first gay uple to wed the state.

Their weddg jt two days after a Texas judge led the state’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal.

Jack Evans & Gee Harris beme first gay uple to get married #Dallas after #SCOTUSMarriage lg.

THIS GAY COUPLE OF MORE THAN 50 YEARS WAS THE FIRST TO GET MARRIED IN DALLAS AFTER SUPREME COURT RULG

They told Fox4 that police ed to set up stg operatns to target gay men. So, when gay marriage beme legal all 50 stat on Friday, they were the first le at the urthoe Dallas. Eric Gay/AP.

SAME-SEX COUPLE GETS MARRIED IN TEXAS, AFTER JUDGE DEFI GAY-MARRIAGE BAN

Two At women beme the first gay uple to legally marry the state of Texas on Thursday. KXAN-TV reports that this all started when a Travis County judge, who had earlier the week led the state's ban on gay marriage unnstutnal, orred an At clerk to issue a marriage license to Sarah Goodiend and Suzanne Bryant. That urt has yet to le on the nstutnaly of gay marriage, so Texas' ban on same-sex marriage is still the law of the land.

FIRST GAY UPLE IS LEGALLY MARRIED TEXAS

The octogenarians wed soon after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage all 50 stat.

FIRST GAY UPLE LEGALLY MARRIED TEXAS

Their nuptials me jt hours after the Supreme Court’s landmark cisn enablg gay upl to marry all 50 stat. Texas is one of 14 stat that still prohibs gay marriage.

Two At women were married Thursday morng on a state judge’s orrs, igng celebratns om gay marriage supporters and nmnatn om the state’s Republin lears, cludg Attorney General Ken Paxton, who vowed to void the Goodiend and Suzanne Bryant, together almost 31 years, said their vows before Rabbi Kerry Baker while standg ont of the Travis County clerk’s office as Airport Boulevard traffic mbled beme the first legally married same-sex uple Texas to cri of “Mazel tov! High urt will hear four s on gay marriage April and issue a lg this summer. A year ago, a feral judge San Anton found the Texas gay marriage ban to be unnstutnal but halted the lg om gog to effect while the state appealed.

AT GAY COUPLE BE FIRST TO WED TEXAS, DPE BAN

AUSTIN – Two At women were legally married Travis County on Thursday makg them the first gay uple to be married Texas. All of this jt two days after a Texas judge led that the state’s gay marriage ban was unnstutnal.

Late Thursday afternoon, the Texas Supreme Court blocked gay upl om obtag marriage licens and granted the requts of the Texas Attorney General to stay two urt lgs that clared Texas marriage law unnstutnal. Dpe Texas’ longstandg ban on same-sex marriag, two At women ma history on Thursday morng when they beme the first gay uple to legally wed the state.

But the orr by state District Judge David Wahlberg of Travis County was temporarily blocked by the Texas Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon, preventg other gay upl om obtag marriage licens. Wahlberg’s orr me on the heels of Tuday's lg by Travis County Probate Judge Guy Herman that said banng gay marriage is illegal. After Herman’s lg prompted uncertaty among officials who were unsure what effect has on gay marriage the unty, Paxton asked the Texas Supreme Court to tervene that se and halt Herman’s lg.

THE FIRST 72 HOURS OF LEGAL GAY MARRIAGE TEXAS HAVE BEEN EVENTFUL

The nstutnaly of the state’s gay marriage ban is also beg nsired at the feral level. 5th Circu Court of Appeals is expected to le on Texas’ gay marriage ban.

Supreme Court has also agreed to hear four gay marriage s. Although the urt orr only applied to the one At uple, advot for gay marriage were quick to celebrate on Thursday. Wh the Texas urt now regnizg gay marriag, same-sex upl n marry and divorce no differently than oppose-sex upl.

WHERE CAN GAY COUPL LEGALLY GET MARRIED TEXAS?

It is remend that all parti fd a good divorce lawyer regardls of if they are endg an oppose-sex marriage or a gay marriage. The Texas Supreme Court has issued an emergency orr blockg gay upl om obtag marriage licens after a lbian uple wed At.

IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL TEXAS?

Texas voters overwhelmgly approved a nstutnal ban on gay marriage 2005. First Gay Couple Marri  At Court. Dpe Texas' longstandg ban on gay marriage, a same-sex uple married At on Thursday immediately after beg granted a marriage license unr a one-time urt orr issued for medil reasons.

The license was issued exclively for Sarah Goodiend and Suzanne Bryant, who requted the license Travis County two days after a lol judge led an unrelated tate se that Texas' gay-marriage ban was unnstutnal. Texas' -old, voter-approved ban on gay marriage was clared unnstutnal feral urt last year, but the judge stayed the lg to allow the state to appeal.

TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL

In reportg on the challeng faced by gay upl who sought marriage licens the immediate wake of the urt’s lg, At Amerin-Statman reporter Claire Osborn found somethg else fascatg Williamson County: namely that, as the nservative Central Texas unty attempted to lay issug licens to same-sex upl,  also spent a portn of the day on Friday layg the issuance of all marriage licens, cludg to oppose-sex upl.

But there’s a real ntrast between wag a uple of hours for a marriage to be regnized and wag s, as many gay upl have. “Travis County is issug gay marriage licens, ” Spears said while wag the lobby. Travis County—and other unti throughout the state—issued those licens before Attorney General Ken Paxton issued his statement offerg guidance to clerks and jtic of the peace regards to how Texas would be handlg gay marriage after the Court’s ’s statement fally me late the afternoon on Sunday, and quickly beme a natnal headle.

GAY MARRIAGE LAWS IN TEXAS

Texas, of urse, isn’t the only state that had a ban on gay marriag that was overturned by the lg, but ’s the only state where the attorney general sisted that unty clerks were ee to disregard the urt’s lg and refe to procs marriage licens for same-sex upl if vlated their relig beliefs. Paxton’s opn also ntends that jtic of the peace who object to gay marriage are ee to cle to perform ceremoni, sce they’re not required by their official job duti to perform them for anyone.

SAME-SEX COUPLE GETS MARRIED IN TEXAS, AFTER JUDGE DEFI GAY-MARRIAGE BAN

Supreme Court, and when the Supreme Court l that “the Fourteenth Amendment guarante gay people the right to get married, ” that right is nstutnally protected and nnot be ged upon by state law any more than the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment, the Send Amendment, and on down the le. Ultimately, as unty clerks who object to procsg marriage license paperwork for gay upl beg followg Paxton’s advice, we’ll see some clary om the urts. (Photograph by AP Photo/Eric Gay).

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a lower urt lg that said spo of gay and lbian public employe are entled to ernment-subsidized same-sex marriage benefs. That requt to the urt me more than a year after state agenci moved to extend benefs to spo of married gay and lbian employe jt days after the high urt lg. Consirg that all stat have their own marriage laws, you might still be wonrg: is gay marriage legal Texas?