Follow-up: Texas refuses to issue same-sex couples death certificates

[TexasTowelie]

DALLAS – More than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same sex marriage, Texas is not fully recognizing the landmark ruling and refuses to issue death certificates that recognize same-sex marriages.

"It looks to me like we're headed back to federal court," said widower John Stone-Hoskins.

He plans to file a lawsuit against the state on Monday, asking a judge to force Texas to let him change his late spouse's death certificate to reflect their marriage.

"We want to make sure in his lifetime his marriage to James [Stone] is recognized. He deserves that much," said Neel Lane, attorney with Akin Gump, LLP.

Read more: http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/texas-news/2015/07/31/texas-refuses-to-issue-death-certificates-for-same-sex-couples/30920555/

Earlier thread:
Dying Texas Man Seeks Accurate Death Certificate For His Late Husband

[shenmue]

1. :(

[NV Whino]

2. Oh for fuck's sake, Texas

I truly do not get this obstinacy.

[catrose]

5. I don't get it

but it sure is familiar.

Like this: My son's friend's grandmother died, and he asked me what I'd charge the family for a casket spray. I said $150, for a big one made of roses. (Retail: $450) They wanted blue, and I went to the wholesalers and took photos to make a slide show of blue and bluish flowers so that they could pick what they liked. (Few flowers are truly blue.) Offended that I wouldn't do it for free, they went to another florist and paid $450, and the only thing blue on the spray was a ribbon.

If you understand that attitude, you understand Texas.

I don't, but I sure recognize it when I see it.

[malokvale77]

3. How much taxpayer money will be wasted...

on this losing cause.

And to think, I thought George W. Bush was scraping the bottom of the barrel.

When it comes to what's bigger in Texas ... I put ignorance at #1.

[DirkGently]

4. Ooh those clever conservatives.

So creative in finding new ways to throw a childish tantrum when required to treat other human beings like human beings.

Geniuses, truly.