Gay Marriage Ban on Prer Legal Ground | The Texas Tribune

Contents:

• TEXAS APPEALS URT TOSS SU OM WA JP WHO REFED TO MARRY GAY UPL
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO REFED TO MARRY GAY UPL SU MISSN THAT SANCTNED HER
• APPEALS JUDG RAISE DOUBTS ON GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• GAY MARRIAGE BAN ON PRER LEGAL GROUND

TEXAS APPEALS URT TOSS SU OM WA JP WHO REFED TO MARRY GAY UPL

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. Members of the gay muny along wh their fay and iends gathered at the Legacy of Love Monument after marchg om a rally at the Cathedral of Hope Dallas on June 26, 2015.

Earlier the day, the Supreme Court cid to lift the ban on gay marriage. ”Related:Six Texas lawsus target gay marriage, LGBT rights after the fall of Roe v. Supreme Court clared gay marriage bans unnstutnal 2015, Texas judicial l were updated to note that officials who n perform marriag “n’t discrimate by performg oppose-sex ceremoni and not same-sex ceremoni.

Hensley, who is based Wa, stopped performg marriag after the gay marriage cisn. That se go further, argug the Supreme Court erred s 2015 lg on gay marriage and urgg the urt to revis that cisn. ”Related:After Roe, archect of Texas abortn law sets sights on gay marriage and moreThe LattMost Popular on DallasNews.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO REFED TO MARRY GAY UPL SU MISSN THAT SANCTNED HER

For the next year Hensley, like most public officials McLennan County who were thorized to, did not officiate any marriag, acrdg to the Augt 2016 she began officiatg weddgs aga, and sce then she has married 328 straight upl — but not a sgle gay uple. Dimetman and gay rights advot are hopg that Texas is on the verge of s own flashbulb moment.

A feral district judge has already led their favor, and if Texas’ appeals fail, the state may be pelled to jo the almost three-quarters of the untry that now allows same-sex sort of societal change would e at a time when Texas, the largt state wh a same-sex marriage ban, is herg a new slate of Republin lears and lawmakers wh an even more nservative bent, cludg stnch opposn to gay marriage.

“There is such a body of legal precent now, ” said Chuck Smh, executive director of Equaly Texas, a gay rights advocy group. “That all sort of llectively reach the ncln that the 14th Amendment of the Uned Stat Constutn appli to gay and lbian people as well. Gay rights advot, cg a raft of other recent urt cisns, believe the nservative Fifth Circu may swg their way.

APPEALS JUDG RAISE DOUBTS ON GAY MARRIAGE BAN

“I thk ’s important, when people talk about the momentum, for them to look at the electn we jt had, ” said Jonathan Saenz, print of the nservative group Texas Valu, addg that an adverse urt lg was likely to lead Republin lawmakers to “addrs that” durg the next legislative ssn, which begs gay rights advot pot to pollg data by Equaly Texas that dit a majory of Texans now favor legal regnn of same-sex upl. “People know people who are gay now. Smh, the third judge on the panel hearg the se, qutned whether legal precent left the cisn to regnize gay marriage the hands of dividual stat.

The urt also heard arguments Friday s on gay marriage bans Louisiana and Mississippi. Texas’ same-sex marriage ban has been said to be on prer legal ground as appellate urts across the untry have led gay marriage legal almost three-quarters of the untry, makg Texas one of 14 stat that do not allow marriag between upl of the same sex. “Everyone knows that the law is about the moral disapproval of homosexuals, ” Lane said, addg that there was a disnnect between the state’s arguments and the law’s effect on gay upl like his clients who live unr a “cloud of stigma.

GAY MARRIAGE BAN ON PRER LEGAL GROUND

While Lane prented his arguments, Grav dited he thought would be “legally nsistent” to allow stat to regnize a same-sex marriage om another state but not allow gay people to marry wh their borrs. Supreme Court was set to meet to nsir whether would review a gay marriage se, but no cisn was taken on Friday.