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Title: Texas Supreme Court rules against benefits for same-sex couples
Post by: SophieD on June 30, 2017, 01:32:48 PM
Post by: SophieD on June 30, 2017, 01:32:48 PM
Texas Supreme Court rules against benefits for same-sex couples
Washington Blade; June 30, 2017 at 12:22 pm EDT | by Chris Johnson
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2017/06/30/texas-supreme-court-denied-benefits-married-sex-couples/
Writing for the court, Justice Jeffrey Boyd determined the 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges "is not the end" on the same-sex marriage issue and state workers have no established right to obtain benefits, such as health insurance, for their same-sex spouses in the same way as other employees.
"The Supreme Court held in Obergefell that the Constitution requires states to license and recognize same-sex marriages to the same extent that they license and recognize opposite-sex marriages, but it did not hold that states must provide the same publicly funded benefits to all married persons, and — unlike the Fifth Circuit in De Leon — it did not hold that the Texas DOMAs are unconstitutional," Boyd writes.
Washington Blade; June 30, 2017 at 12:22 pm EDT | by Chris Johnson
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2017/06/30/texas-supreme-court-denied-benefits-married-sex-couples/
Writing for the court, Justice Jeffrey Boyd determined the 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges "is not the end" on the same-sex marriage issue and state workers have no established right to obtain benefits, such as health insurance, for their same-sex spouses in the same way as other employees.
"The Supreme Court held in Obergefell that the Constitution requires states to license and recognize same-sex marriages to the same extent that they license and recognize opposite-sex marriages, but it did not hold that states must provide the same publicly funded benefits to all married persons, and — unlike the Fifth Circuit in De Leon — it did not hold that the Texas DOMAs are unconstitutional," Boyd writes.
Title: Re: Texas Supreme Court rules against benefits for same-sex couples
Post by: SophieD on June 30, 2017, 01:33:47 PM
Post by: SophieD on June 30, 2017, 01:33:47 PM
I find it astonishing that the Texas Supreme Court would hold that same-sex married couples can be denied benefits provided to other married couples.
Title: Re: Texas Supreme Court rules against benefits for same-sex couples
Post by: AnneK on June 30, 2017, 01:40:26 PM
Post by: AnneK on June 30, 2017, 01:40:26 PM
It's Texas. What did you expect?
Title: Re: Texas Supreme Court rules against benefits for same-sex couples
Post by: SophieD on June 30, 2017, 01:47:33 PM
Post by: SophieD on June 30, 2017, 01:47:33 PM
Quote from: AnneK on June 30, 2017, 01:40:26 PM
It's Texas. What did you expect?
I know - but the sheer meanness of it.... I grew up in Texas, but I can't fathom the mean-spiritedness, from the very top of the government.
Title: Re: Texas Supreme Court rules against benefits for same-sex couples
Post by: Lady Sarah on June 30, 2017, 09:27:15 PM
Post by: Lady Sarah on June 30, 2017, 09:27:15 PM
Quote from: SophieD on June 30, 2017, 01:47:33 PM
I know - but the sheer meanness of it.... I grew up in Texas, but I can't fathom the mean-spiritedness, from the very top of the government.
Really? These are the same people that put forth a version of North Carolina's bathroom bill, still being debated.
Title: Re: Texas Supreme Court rules against benefits for same-sex couples
Post by: sammie-em on July 02, 2017, 05:25:59 AM
Post by: sammie-em on July 02, 2017, 05:25:59 AM
I'm really getting tired of Texas.... I can't believe my state is imposing all these restrictions to make people like myself, and others lives more difficult for no reason other than "God".