Texas AG: 'Legal chaos' if same-sex marriage not deemed void

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Texas AG: 'Legal chaos' if same-sex marriage not deemed void
By EVA RUTH MORAVEC and PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press | February 20, 2015 | Updated: February 20, 2015 3:55pm

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Friday the state's gay marriage ban has been "needlessly cast in doubt" after a judge gave a lesbian Austin couple permission to tie the knot.

Paxton asked the Supreme Court of Texas to declare the marriage license issued to Suzanne Bryant and Sarah Goodfriend invalid. Paxton warned of "legal chaos" if the court doesn't make clear that a judge wrongly allowed the couple to wed.

"A clear statement is necessary so that all judges within Texas understand that this Court or the U.S. Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of Texas law," Paxton wrote.

Attorneys for the couple contend the marriage remains valid and said Paxton would need to sue the clerk who issued the license, as well as Bryant and Goodfriend, if he wanted the nuptials voided.

"If he's in the business of suing loving couples who've been together 30 years, one of whom has cancer, than I think it's a sad day for Texas," attorney Brian Thompson said.

State District Judge David Wahlberg, an elected Democrat, on Thursday ordered the Travis County Clerk to issue the couple a license. He based his order on a probate court judge's ruling on Tuesday that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. Paxton said Wahlberg relied on an order that violated state law — because he wasn't notified first of the constitutional challenge.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Texas-attorney-argues-gay-couple-s-marriage-is-6091368.php

[blkmusclmachine]

1. The Talibangelical Theocracy Of Texas (TTT, for short.)

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/

[SheilaT]

2. Yeah, the chaos would be when thousands

of couples who were legally denied the right to marry all of a sudden show up, causing huge lines to get licenses, and then completely overwhelm the wedding industry with expensive clothes and receptions. How dreadful that would be!

Actually, I suspect that down the road, some same sex couples will indulge in the over-the-top expensive weddings that are now almost the norm. Just give it time.

[Iliyah]

3. The only ones who are creating "legal chaos" is you and your righteous GAWD fearing assholes.

As history by passes the so called "Christians" in all matters dealing with civil rights, choice, immigration, voting rights, healthcare and more, "We the People of the United States of America" will prevail.

[RKP5637]

6. Well said!

[RKP5637]

4. What a ruthless toxic jerk he is!!!!! n/t

[randys1]

5. Tough spot for a disgusting puke rightwing politician who may be personally OK with Gay marriage

but has to hate it to maintain support from "The Stupids"

[Trillo]

10. That's an interesting take,

it's all fake.

[cstanleytech]

7. "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!"

Dr. Peter Venkman

[christx30]

11. "We don't want Nazis riding dinosaurs, do we!?"

Drawn Together, in an episode about gay marriage.

[sendero]

8. Dear Ken..

... I'm sure nobody ever accused you of being smart enough to know when a battle has been lost and to move on.

It's OVER Kenny. Bigotry lost for once. Get over it.

[Ace Rothstein]

9. There are still some holdouts...

...but you can even see that most right-wing posters on forums have come around to gay marriage being here to stay.

[christx30]

12. Most of the holdouts I've seen have been saying

that it's here to stay, but they will refuse to participate, and would rather go to jail than recognize a gay marriage. And they worry that a church will be forced to host a ceremony.

[DeSwiss]

13. The chaos he fears.......

...is caused by the Cognitive Dissonance buzzing sounds now going-off incessantly inside his head. He hears it. He knows it's out there waiting for him. And he's frozen with fear and loathing. But I'm afraid there's nothing anyone can do.

- Well, there is, but I'm too far away.......


K&R

[24601]

14. Nothing close to the chaos should SCOTUS rule SSM is a state decision. There are what, a half-dozen

or fewer states that decided this for themselves while around 30 are under federal court orders which would be vacated by such a decision.