Wh a se challengg the state’s nstutnal ban on same-sex marriag headg to a feral appeals urt next month, gay rights advot are hopg that Texas is on the verge of s own flashbulb moment.
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
* texas reconsideration of gay marriage *
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.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO REFED TO MARRY GAY UPL SU MISSN THAT SANCTNED HER
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.
APPEALS JUDG RAISE DOUBTS ON GAY MARRIAGE BAN
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.
GAY MARRIAGE BAN ON PRER LEGAL GROUND
”Related:After Roe, archect of Texas abortn law sets sights on gay marriage and moreThe LattMost Popular on DallasNews. 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.