How Texas May Accidentally Legalize Some Same-Sex Marriages

[Natasha]

How Texas May Accidentally Legalize Some Same-Sex Marriages

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-peron/how-texas-may-legalize-same-sex-marriages_b_854065.html
4/26/11

Republican legislators in the theocratic Republic of Texas have once again demonstrated that they are dumber collectively than they are separately. They are in the process of passing a law that would refuse to recognize sex change operations for transgendered people when it comes to marriages, without thinking through how it may actually legalize same-sex marriages for some.

The legislation is sponsored by a particularly dim-witted Republican, Senator Tommy Williams. Sorry, people, but it is hard to take a grown man who calls himself by the juvenile derivative of his name seriously. Little Tommy says he is sponsoring the legislation to repeal a 2009 law that recognized sex change operations for gender reassignment. County clerks would be prohibited from recognizing court orders recognizing a sex change. Tommy says this is to clean up a loophole because Theopublicans previously passed a constitutional measure to ban marriages for gay people. As Little Tommy says, "The Texas Constitution clearly defines marriage between one man and one woman."

[Ann Onymous]

Yet another media site fails to read the legislation before they post an article slamming Texas.  The proposed legislation does nothing of the sort.  Rather, it would make the marriage applicants seeking a license to show real identification.  Not allowing the court order to be the identification accepted by the Clerk is NOT the same as a 'refusal to recognize sex change operations.'

Personally, I prefer the changes to the statute that could occur through HB3098 instead of the Williams Senate Bill.  There is NO reason for people not to be able to produce some measure of photo ID, whether the DL or a passport or a pilots license or a military ID or other specified photo ID. 

[tekla]

Yet another media site fails to read the legislation before they post an article slamming Texas.

Not that Texas needs any help in doing that.

[Dawn D.]

............  Rather, it would make the marriage applicants seeking a license to show real identification.  Not allowing the court order to be the identification accepted by the Clerk is NOT the same as a 'refusal to recognize sex change operations.'

Personally, I prefer the changes to the statute that could occur through HB3098 instead of the Williams Senate Bill.  There is NO reason for people not to be able to produce some measure of photo ID, whether the DL or a passport or a pilots license or a military ID or other specified photo ID.

Extremely strong points!

Although, I do believe the 'intent' of the republican introduced legislation is nefarious at best! When I first read what it was that they are doing, it seemed quite obvious that their goal would have no bearing if one simply produced a valid, legal, picture ID. After all, until they write legislation which establishes a genital inspection, this is all just an obvious attempt at singling out a specific sub-group of the overall population and discriminate at will. However, it doesn't appear that they can cover all the bases they need to in which to accommodate their devious desires.


Dawn 

[Suzy]

Although, I do believe the 'intent' of the republican introduced legislation is nefarious at best! When I first read what it was that they are doing, it seemed quite obvious that their goal would have no bearing if one simply produced a valid, legal, picture ID.

Precisely.  Although this bill came about specifically as an attempt to undermine the Nikki Arraguz case, I don't know of anyone who gets married first before getting other ID changed.  Don't get me wrong, the whole thing is terrible, and a step in the wrong direction.  However, this one does not appear to have teeth, much to the consternation of the idiot who proposed it.