Texas denies drivers license to woman who took her partner’s name in same-sex marriage

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/texas-denies-drivers-license-to-woman-who-took-her-partners-name-in-same-sex-marriage/

Texas denies drivers license to woman who took her partner’s name in same-sex marriage
Tom Boggioni
21 Sep 2014

A California woman, recently transplanted to Houston, was refused a drivers license by the Texas Department of Public Safety because she had taken the last name of her same-sex partner last year following their marriage.

Connie Wilson told the Texas Observer that she and her partner of nine years, Aimee Wilson, had recently moved to Houston with their three children.

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Wilson admitted being married to another woman, to which the DPS employee replied, “You can’t use this to get your license. This doesn’t validate your last name. Do you have anything else?”

“She told me I would never get a license with my current name, that the name doesn’t belong to me,” Wilson said, adding the that employee was a supervisor.

[Arkansas Granny]

1. And this is why we need a constitutional amendment instead of leaving it up to the states.

[HockeyMom]

2. Florida is doing this also

That is why I won't show them my Marriage License from NY, and I am married to a member of the opposite sex. She CAN get a Driver's License in her married name by showing them a Federal Passport, which all states must recognize as ID. I know she should not have to do this, but think of it as a big FU to bigots.

[silvershadow]

3. ridiculous. Nt