Texas AG Greg Abbott: Judge in Prop 8 case 'failed to do what a judge is supposed to do'
Posted on 31 Aug 2010 at 12:06pm
http://www.dallasvoice.com/greg-abbott-1041880.html (http://www.dallasvoice.com/greg-abbott-1041880.html)
Smith: You had the opportunity recently in a case here in Texas involving a transgender individual to offer an attorney general's opinion. This is a case where people say it may be kind of a small crack in the door, where gay marriage is actually in certain instances legal in Texas. Your office was asked to offer an opinion, and you declined to. Can you talk about that?
Abbott: First of all, we had three opportunities to weigh in legally in courts about whether or not gay marriage is legal in the state of Texas. The issue you're talking about is the transgender issue, and that involved an issue where we got an opinion request from the county attorney in El Paso, and we rejected opining on that opinion because of current pending litigation. Now if I tell the county attorney from El Paso that I will not give them an opinion, Evan, I'm not going to give you an opinion either.
If I am a perverted man impersonating a woman, then he is a jack ass impersonating an Attorney General to create a perversion of law.