Same-sex marriage bill now on table

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http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Bill-filed-Feb-14-aims-to-split-from-Texas-4280215.php?utm_sourceUA-4208263-16=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=

AUSTIN — A Democratic lawmaker introduced legislation Thursday to legalize same-sex marriage in the state, 10 years after the Legislature proposed a constitutional amendment banning it.

Fort Worth Rep. Lon Burnam said he filed the measure as a Valentine's Day gift to all Texans.
If passed, the bill would legalize same-sex marriage once Texas voters remove the constitutional prohibition against it. Texas voters imposed the ban in 2005.

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Democrats already have filed three joint resolutions calling for a new statewide vote on gay marriage.

Nine states have legalized same-sex marriages and, on Thursday, the Illinois Senate approved another such measure.

Perry and conservative Republican championed the ban. None of the bills have much chance of passing the Republican-controlled Legislature, but Democrats want to vote on them anyway.

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1. Just for show.

And it only took the Democrats 8 years to do this. Such Fierce Advocates (ahem).

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2. Setting a voting record is very important to future primaries and elections. Red obstinace

makes Texas bluer.