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Related: About this forumPaxton: 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 Courts ruling did nothing to eliminate rights of religious liberty, Paxtons opinion states.
Read more: http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2015-06-28/paxton-state-workers-can-deny-licenses-same-sex-couples#.VZB9cUYT91M
A-hole.
elleng
(130,131 posts)WHAT a POS!
shenmue
(38,501 posts)SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)to break the law and leave themselves open to lawsuits. Nice.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,295 posts)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)...an Ass-whipping long distance!
Skittles
(152,964 posts)although lately it looks more like a mini-Dallas
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)let the legal maneuvering begin and bring cameras.
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)YES INDEED
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)both of them.
TexasTowelie
(111,295 posts)since he already paid a fine for securities fraud (and he was co-author of the bill that made those activities illegal).
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)They'll eventually get the message.