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Contents:
- TEXAS GOP'S NEW PLATFORM LLS GAY PEOPLE 'ABNORMAL' AND REJECTS TRANS INTI
- GREG ABBOTT CELEBRAT SIGNG OF STUPID, USELS ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL
- TEXAS GOP CALLS TO END GAY MARRIAGE, CRIMALIZE ADULT TRANS HEALTHRE
- TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL
- TRAVELER REMOVED FROM FLIGHT AFTER TELLG ANTI-GAY TEXAS GOVERNOR TO 'GO TO HELL'
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- ABBOTT SERV UP SOME EXTRA-LEAN RED MEAT ON GAY MARRIAGE
- TEXAS GOVENOR ACSTED AT JFK AIRPORT OVER GAY-MARRIAGE STANCE
TEXAS GOP'S NEW PLATFORM LLS GAY PEOPLE 'ABNORMAL' AND REJECTS TRANS INTI
Check out what your state legislature has been wastg 's time on, givg clergy rndant protectn om the gays. * texas governor on gay marriage *
Gay people still have the eedom to marry… members of the oppose sex. For gay upl who want to get married, Abbott hts at a solutn: Fd an oppose-sex partner. As the San Anton Exprs-News put a headle yterday: “Gay marriage ban stuted for kids’ sake.
Well, not even procreatn per se—more like, the statistil relatnship between excludg gay upl om marriage and the creased likelihood of procreatn wh straight marriage. Put another way: Abbott wants to ban gay upl om gettg married to enurage straight upl to have children.
Abbott nnot argue that marriage is about child-rearg, or the welfare of children, bee gay upl are perfectly willg and able to raise children. (Ined, gay upl raisg kids Texas face all sorts of legal problems bee of Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage; the Abbott brief says not a word about this real-world problem for children and their parents, cludg Cleopatra Leon and Nile Dimetman, the platiffs the se. Even for those wh spo who n’t nceive, Abbott argu, banng gay marriage will keep you om sleepg around and havg kids out of wedlock that the rt of have to pay for.
GREG ABBOTT CELEBRAT SIGNG OF STUPID, USELS ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a potential Republin printial ndidate, said Friday he supports state rights so much that he's fe wh New York's approval of gay marriage but still lled himself an "unapologetic social nservative." * texas governor on gay marriage *
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. "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.
TEXAS GOP CALLS TO END GAY MARRIAGE, CRIMALIZE ADULT TRANS HEALTHRE
* texas governor on gay marriage *
"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. 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.
The unrlyg assumptn ma by both Abbott and Paxton, that same-sex upl would actually want to get married by someone who thks they're an abomatn, was thoroughly knocked down earlier this year by state Reprentative Celia Israel om At, who is gay. The leopard is eatg my face, cry gay Republins.
This morng’s headl, as reported The Hill, foc on a stunng guidg philosophy:Homosexualy is an abnormal liftyle choice. We believe there should be no grantg of special legal entlements or creatn of special stat for homosexual behavr, regardls of state of Party clearly means what they say, havg refed to allow the Log Cab Republins, a gay group, to participate on the floor of the state nventn. Rick Perry, a potential Republin printial ndidate, said Friday he supports state rights so much that he's fe wh New York's approval of gay marriage but still lled himself an "unapologetic social nservative.
TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL
Perry, who has been weighg a printial n, said he oppos gay marriage - but that he's also a firm believer of the 10th Amendment.
TRAVELER REMOVED FROM FLIGHT AFTER TELLG ANTI-GAY TEXAS GOVERNOR TO 'GO TO HELL'
Greg Abbott (R) about his stance agast gay marriage. The unnamed 32-year-old walked up to Abbott, shook his hand and then said, "I hope you [expletive] go to hell bee of your stance on gay marriage, " Abbott Communitns Director Matt Hirsch told the At Amerin-Statman.
After the Supreme Court's historic lg on gay marriage last month, Abbott said the urt had "abandoned s role as an impartial judicial arber and has bee an unelected ne-member legislature.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
↑ NPR, "Feral Judge Voids Texas Gay Marriage Ban, " Febary 26, 2014, " accsed Febary 27, 2014. ↑ The Tim‑Piyune, "Arguments gay marriage s om Louisiana and Texas set for January, " October 27, 2014. California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books.
Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage.
Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later. Requir private cizens to regnize homosexual marriag when the law of Texas ntu to fe marriage exclively as the unn of one man and one woman. They’re turng back the clock to prerve dangero, exclnary straight whe male be clear, Whe, the Texas state reprentative agast “homosexual marriag, ” is Black.
ABBOTT SERV UP SOME EXTRA-LEAN RED MEAT ON GAY MARRIAGE
Rick Perry held an unnecsary, ceremonial signg of Texas’ anti-gay marriage amendment at a Fort Worth church. When Perry signed the rolutn puttg the same-sex marriage ban amendment on the ballot, gay marriage was already prohibed by statute. Hoe Speaker Joe Strs, what was a rare public mentn of LGBT issu for him, allud to those nsequenc Tuday, when asked by The Texas Tribune‘s Evan Smh about the mise of anti-gay marriage legislatn.
Hodg … requir private cizens to regnize homosexual marriag when the law of Texas ntu to fe marriage exclively as the unn of one man and one woman. Whe nclus the letter by wrg, “I rpectfully ask that you clarify that neher Obergefell nor De Leon requir private cizens to regnize homosexual marriag, and neher cisn requir or allows them to disregard the extant law of Texas that ntu to fe marriage….
Jam Whe, a Republin nng for agriculture missner, has asked AG Ken Paxton whether private cizens Texas need to regnize gay marriag. Dallas Morng News vtigative reporter Lren McGghy also not that the state still has a law emg “homosexual nduct” a Class C mismeanor the Crimal Co as well, although the Supreme Court emed unnstutnal 2018. “Legislative lears TX issued an opn statg legalized gay marriage shouldn’t be permted the Lone Star State bee they feel state law tmps the SCOTUS lg Obergefell v Hodg, ” the Lln Project, a polil actn mtee, stated a tweet sharg a py of the letter.
TEXAS GOVENOR ACSTED AT JFK AIRPORT OVER GAY-MARRIAGE STANCE
Legislative lears TX issued an opn statg legalized gay marriage shouldn’t be permted the Lone Star State bee they feel state law tmps the SCOTUS lg Obergefell v Hodg. TX lawmakers have also never axed a state statute makg "homosexual nduct" a Class C mismeanor.
González, who is a member of the @txlgbtquc, add this about her lleague's requt to religate the Supreme Court's lg upholdg gay marriage. you’re daily remr that gay rights are still unr attack texas, and that republin lears are as homophobic as ever before.