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TexasTowelie

(111,295 posts)
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 07:06 PM Jun 2015

Paxton: State workers can deny licenses to same-sex couples

Texas’ conservative Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton calls the Supreme Court decision giving same-sex couples the right to marry a “lawless ruling” and says state workers can cite their religious objections in denying marriage licenses.

He warned in a statement Sunday that any clerk, justice of the peace or other administrator who declines to issue a license to a same-sex couple could face litigation or a fine.

But in the nonbinding legal opinion, Paxton says “numerous lawyers” stand ready to defend, free of charge, any public official refusing to grant one.

In its 5-4 opinion Friday, the Supreme Court’s ruling did nothing to eliminate rights of religious liberty, Paxton’s opinion states.

Read more: http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2015-06-28/paxton-state-workers-can-deny-licenses-same-sex-couples#.VZB9cUYT91M

A-hole.

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TexasTowelie

(111,295 posts)
6. We have Skittles in Texas if she is willing to take the trip to Austin,
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 07:37 PM
Jun 2015

YES INDEED!

I hope you she is wearing her boots inch long cleats and the pointed spike at the end of her toes.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
8. Oh my God. That Gal means business. She's the only woman I know that can give you...
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 08:10 PM
Jun 2015

...an Ass-whipping long distance!

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
10. I lived in Austin 17 years and know the town very well
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 08:19 PM
Jun 2015

although lately it looks more like a mini-Dallas

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
7. They need to vacate their civil offices or be the subject of lawsuits.
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 07:56 PM
Jun 2015

let the legal maneuvering begin and bring cameras.

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
12. Hopefully when one of his minions does this, the AGOTUS will send someone down there to cuff
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 08:28 PM
Jun 2015

both of them.

TexasTowelie

(111,295 posts)
13. Paxton belongs in jail anyway
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 08:35 PM
Jun 2015

since he already paid a fine for securities fraud (and he was co-author of the bill that made those activities illegal).

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