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The Texas GOP may be about to go all Kim Davis.
Anti-LGBT activists want the state's Republican Party to approve a resolution calling on GOP Gov. Greg Abbott to convene a special session of the Legislature to pass a bill that would directly defy the U.S. Supreme Court on same-sex marriage.
The bill would bar state and local employees from issuing, enforcing or recognizing same-sex marriage licenses and prohibit public monies from being used to do so regardless of any court order.
"Traditional marriage and religious liberty are under attack all across the nation," former Harris County GOP Chair Jared Woodfill (photo) wrote in an email Friday. "We recently witnessed a federal judge incarcerate a Kentucky clerk, Kim Davis, because she refused to compromise on her faith and issue homosexual marriage licenses. In my hometown of Houston, we continue to battle Mayor Annise Parker and her liberal LGBT agenda for the City of Houston. Ultimately, the goal of the left is to silence people of faith and require them to sacrifice their deeply held religious beliefs on the altar of political correctness. We must not allow this to happen on our watch!"
Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/johnwright/texas_gop_to_consider_anti_gay_marriage_resolution_defying_scotus
atreides1
(16,079 posts)...is one that Texans are very familiar with. They betrayed Mexico, then the United States...I guess they believe in the "third time being the charm"!
So, do you think if this resolution passes...the next one will be to bring back slavery, since that's in the Bible too?
TexasTowelie
(112,238 posts)so we might have to wait on the slavery issue.
joshdawg
(2,648 posts)The stupid runs deep in the republican held government here in the state of Texas.
What is sad is that there does not seem to be any end to it.
Gothmog
(145,313 posts)The Texas GOP is very homophobic
DhhD
(4,695 posts)The election of Abraham Lincoln, really embroiled Texas Republicans.
The Civil War embittered Republicans even more.
http://www.tamupress.com/product/Texas-after-the-Civil-War,160.aspx
http://texasourtexas.texaspbs.org/the-eras-of-texas/civil-war-reconstruction/
Texas Republicans are still voiding the powers of the Constitution of the United States.