After GOP pressure, Texas Supreme Court takes gay marriage case

[TexasTowelie]

Source: Austin American Statesman

In a rare reversal, the all-Republican Texas Supreme Court accepted a gay marriage case Friday after pressure from state GOP leaders and grass-roots activists.

The state’s highest civil court had rejected the case 8-1 in September, prompting a concerted effort to revive a lawsuit that sought to abolish benefits the city of Houston provides to married same-sex couples. Opponents believe the Houston case provides an opportunity for a ruling that limits the impact of the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.

Gay marriage opponents asked the court to reconsider by filing a rarely granted motion to rehear the case that the court accepted, without comment, on Friday.

Oral arguments will be heard March 1.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/after-gop-pressure-texas-supreme-court-takes-gay-marriage-case/n8weH4ATRWE5CauMcI65dO/?ref=cbTopWidget

[LeftInTX]

1. This state is just crawling backwards......

[TexasTowelie]

3. Hell,

they are running at full fool speed.

[slumcamper]

4. And so is the nation. We must RESIST. n/t

[Wounded Bear]

2. I hope it goes 9-0 this time...nt

[tenorly]

5. To all our happily married LGBT couples here on DU, enjoy matrimony while it lasts.

The second that King Con shoves one of his larcenous holy rollers into the Supreme Court, that hard-earned right will be gone.

[J_William_Ryan]

7. Actually, that right has always existed.

Requiring the states to acknowledge that right was hard-fought, and now the possibility indeed exists where the states will once again be allowed to violate the fundamental right all citizens have to due process and equal protection of the law – including gay Americans.

[hells]

6. So it begins

And it took only a couple of hours.

[Little Tich]

8. I don't get - if a couple is married, they get benefits, right?

Fortunately, there's not much the Texas Supreme Court can do about that.

[TexasTowelie]

9. No.

The right to marry is part of the Supreme Court ruling, but there have been no Supreme Court rulings that guaranty a same sex spouse the opportunity to receive health insurance benefits. It will likely take another Supreme Court ruling at the federal level to obatin those rights even though it is clearly discriminatory.

[Little Tich]

10. Aha. n/t