Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick asks Texans to be army to protect marriage

[TexasTowelie]

Ralph Barrera / Austin American-Statesman / AP Photo
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks during Faith and Family Day, which was sponsored by Texas Values and Texas Right to Life supporters, at the Capitol in Austin on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. The event was held to celebrate the state's 10-year-old ban on same-sex marriage.

AUSTIN (AP) — Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick this week urged a gathering of religious and social conservatives to become an army of supporters to help him and other Christian politicians oppose abortion, protect marriage and defend the Constitution.

The Austin American-Statesman reports Patrick, a Republican, gave a speech at the Texas Faith and Family Day Forum at the Capitol that called people to action against what other speakers had called liberal attacks on traditional values. He said that, together, they could be leaders in education and job creation, but they also must be leaders for Christ.

Patrick's speech was followed by the symbolic cutting of two wedding cakes to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of a Texas constitutional amendment that limited marriage to opposite-sex couples. State Rep. Cecil Bell, a Republican from Magnolia, was asked to slice one of the cakes in recognition of his bill which would withhold the pay of county clerks and government employees who issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

"My family's been in Texas since 1852," Bell said after the forum. "What has always been normal for us, we're suddenly being told it's not normal, that those things that are our traditional values, somehow they are wrong."

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[Turbineguy]

1. Like help people

whose marriage is on the rocks to keep them from getting a divorce?

[hobbit709]

2. sorry dumbass, but I enlisted in the other army a long time ago.

[Paladin]

3. Rep. Bell, owning slaves used to be "normal" in Texas.

And if you're hanging out with Dan Patrick, you're keeping really shitty company.

[RussBLib]

4. this is going to be embarrassing

4 years of this clown, and then he'll want to be governor.

[Paladin]

5. Make no mistake about it: Patrick is a full-speed theocrat.

I heard him proclaim it more than once on his AM hate radio show in Houston, back when he was satisfied with being a Limbaugh wannabe. He's a genuinely dangerous person.

[NCLefty]

6. When I was a kid in a Christian school, they used to make us sing

Onward Christian Soldiers, marching off to war... blah blah blah.

This was in the northeast it wasn't an extreme version of Christianity either. They just imagined they're at war with everyone, I guess.