Texas bans Straight Marriage

[JesusA (imported)]

This amendment to the Texas state constitution should do wonders for the divorce rate….

Banning straight marriage by mistake

Posted by: Lexington

The Economist

November 19, 2009

SOME Texans are worried that a constitutional amendment against gay marriage they passed in 2005 appears to ban heterosexual marriage as well.

The text seems unambiguous to me:

This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognise any legal status identical or similar to marriage. Got that? The state may not recognise any legal status identical to marriage. Such as marriage.

This sounds like the libertarian argument that we should separate marriage and state, but I guess that wasn't what they meant to say.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/lexingto ... e_by_m.cfm

[Riverwind (imported)]

LOL, somehow it sounds like Bush had his hand in the cookie jar again, this is something he would do. Only in Texas.

River