Texas lawmakers try to set up legal barriers to same-sex marriage

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Tue May 12, 2015 5:42pm EDT

Texas lawmakers try to set up legal barriers to same-sex marriage

SAN ANTONIO | BY JIM FORSYTH

With a possibility the U.S. Supreme Court next month will legalize same-sex marriage, the Republican-controlled Texas legislature is pushing measures to bolster the state's constitutional amendment that bans gay weddings.

The campaign coming in the final weeks of the legislative session has been called by critics an attempt to enact mean-spirited laws, some of which probably could not survive a legal challenge.

Texas is one of many socially conservative states looking to slow down the gathering momentum in favor of same-sex marriages in the country.

One of the main pieces of legislation is called the "Preservation of Sovereignty and Marriage Act," and it would block clerk's offices in the state's 254 counties from using tax money to issue licenses for same-sex weddings.

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[shenmue]

1. Well, they'll get sued and cost the state a ton of money

That ought to make them really popular with their stingy old constituents.

[Thinkingabout]

2. If the same people would work as hard to advance this country as they do with this stupid

attempts to make these dumb laws we would be in very good shape.

[Terra Alta]

3. Let them try.

Once the Supreme Court rules in favor of marriage equality, this will be unconstitutional.

[okasha]

4. The Texas lege is famously stupid.

I'm beginning to think candidates should be allowed to run for public office only after passing a rigorous course on the Constitution.