Supreme Court rules states must allow same-sex marriage

[GandD 5,966]

Kentucky law only allows marriage licenses to be issued for fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, sisters and brothers, and with a sworn affidavit, and witnesses 1st cousins.

Smearing an entire state is respectable and constructive.

Looks like Texas governor signed into law today "Religious Freedom Act" which allows church clergy or members not to participate in gay marriage and free from civil or criminal action

https://www.ltgov.state.tx.us/2015/05/11/lt-governor-dan-patrick-on-passage-of-religious-freedom-senate-bill/

I think I'm going to enjoy watching this play out more than you except for the opposite reason.

[zuluweta 250]

As illustrated above, someone who's divorced and then remarried is not in a traditional marriage. Someone who's in an interracial marriage today is not in a traditional marriage because before 1967's Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia, interracial marriages were illegal in a number of states, mostly in the south. Someone who's not in a traditional marriage himself has no right to be pontificating about traditional marriages. Period.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

I fail to see what is fantastic about wasting a state's resources on defending lawsuits against county clerks who "take a stand." It's an utter waste of money and court time.

Don't like gay marriage? Don't get gay married. Don't perform a religious marriage for gay people. But if you are involved in a public, civil act relating to marrying people of the same sex, or opposite sexes, uphold your duty to the United States and your State constitution (which cannot be written or interpreted in contravention to the US Constitution). If you don't like it, don't be in civil service. I hear there are many minimum wage jobs that are easy to perform.

[zuluweta 250]

Arkansas County Clerk Resigns So She Doesn't Have To Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses.

I say good. She can't be a civil servant if she won't be able to serve the entire public.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/29/arkansas-gay-marriage_n_7691172.html

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Looks like Texas governor signed into law today "Religious Freedom Act" which allows church clergy or members not to participate in gay marriage and free from civil or criminal action

https://www.ltgov.state.tx.us/2015/05/11/lt-governor-dan-patrick-on-passage-of-religious-freedom-senate-bill/

Useless law. There was never any obligation for any clergy to officiate or otherwise participate when same sex couples get married. Political grandstanding is all that is. To get people like you excited - excited about nothing. It's what the "gold standard" did to some of the states in this nation. Yours being one of them.

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

I doubt any lawsuits will prevail in Texas

I am just over her loving the way Texas is taking a stand, It is pretty darn funny.........

Texas isn't taking a stand. A small handful of individuals are throwing tantrums. I do agree, it's pretty darn funny to watch adults throwing tantrums like little whiny babies.

Looks like some Kentucky county clerks are not issuing marriage license to gays

http://www.kentucky.com/2015/06/29/3923157/some-kentucky-county-clerks-refusing.html

Yup. More tantrums.

I really have to give my respects to Texas.

The Attorney General has basically told he US Supreme Court regarding gay marriage to pack sand

I see Paxton being a key figure in Texas politics in the near future for his bold stand........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyc3RaI2AV4

He may have told them that, but most people seem to not be having tantrums. These are the last dying flames of this idiocy.

You are from Philippines. Where Muslims are allowed to have multiply wives

I just hope one day the I will be legally allowed to have mulitiply wives, It would be greatness to have about 3 Philippines Wives in the same house.........

Ah, I see what it is. You want to be waited on hand and foot and it's cheaper to marry them than it would be to employ house staff.

Looks like Texas governor signed into law today "Religious Freedom Act" which allows church clergy or members not to participate in gay marriage and free from civil or criminal action

https://www.ltgov.state.tx.us/2015/05/11/lt-governor-dan-patrick-on-passage-of-religious-freedom-senate-bill/

Gay people aren't trying to force the churches to marry us. We're just trying to have legal freedom.

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

Useless law. There was never any obligation for any clergy to officiate or otherwise participate when same sex couples get married. Political grandstanding is all that is. To get people like you excited - excited about nothing. It's what the "gold standard" did to some of the states in this nation. Yours being one of them.

You'd think someone like him would be more worried about his tax dollars being wasted.

And also, you'd think he'd be SUPER EXCITED about gay marriage being a thing. Now he could divorce his phillippines wife, make her marry a woman and have two!

[zuluweta 250]

You are from Philippines. Where Muslims are allowed to have multiply wives

I just hope one day the I will be legally allowed to have mulitiply wives, It would be greatness to have about 3 Philippines Wives in the same house.........

Donald Trump is not Muslim, so you have no point. Neither is your marriage 'traditional'.

[zuluweta 250]

State of Texas to Extend benefits to spouses of gay/lesbian employees!!!..conservative heads in TX exploding in 3...2...1...

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/updated-same-sex-marriage-backers-hit-paxton-for-inviting-resistance-by-clerks.html/

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Smearing an entire state is respectable and constructive.

I think I'm going to enjoy watching this play out more than you except for the opposite reason.

I see your sarcasm meter is on the fritz again. That was so not a serious comment on my part I find it difficult to believe that you thought it was serious.

[JohnR! 5,495]

LOL... Another governor who failed to read the US Constitution, where such rights have been enshrined for over two centuries now... You can't make this stuff up...

Looks like Texas governor signed into law today "Religious Freedom Act" which allows church clergy or members not to participate in gay marriage and free from civil or criminal action

https://www.ltgov.state.tx.us/2015/05/11/lt-governor-dan-patrick-on-passage-of-religious-freedom-senate-bill/

[TBoneTX 45,654]

I just hope one day the I will be legally allowed to have mulitiply wives, It would be greatness to have about 3 Philippines Wives in the same house.........

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same thing." -- Disraeli (?)

[VOL 425]

Hood County clerk won't issue marriage license to gays

She is following Paxtons options, to be fair no gays has applied either

http://www.fox4news.com/story/29437316/hood-county-clerk-wont-issue-marriage-licenses-to-same-sex-couples

[VOL 425]

More counties have joined and are not going to issue marriage licenses to gays

https://www.texastribune.org/2015/06/29/texas-counties-withholding-same-sex-marriage-licen/

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

“I’m standing up for my religious liberty,” said Hood County Clerk Katie Lang, who said her office would not give out same-sex marriage licenses on religious grounds. “I do believe that marriage is for one man and one woman because it did derive from the Bible."

Stupid is as stupid does. This idiotic county clerk should take a civic lesson.