Texas Attorney General Declines To Issue Opinion To Clarify Same-Sex Marriage Controversy In El Paso
Staff Report
POSTED: 5:08 pm MDT August 9, 2010
Reporting by Maria Garcia, photography by Jerry Najera.
http://www.kvia.com/news/24570713/detail.htmlEL PASO, Texas -- El Paso County Attorney Jo Anne Bernal on Monday announced that the Office of the Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has formally declined to issue a legal opinion regarding the granting of marriage licenses to individuals who have undergone sex change operations.
On April 19, 2010 El Paso County Attorney's Office requested a legal opinion as to whether the County Clerk could legally issue a marriage license under a new Texas law when one of the parties is a female and the other was born a man but subsequently underwent sexual reassignment surgery and is now living as a woman.
The request was made after two Hudspeth County women - Sabrina Hill and Therese Bur requested, and were denied, a marriage license in El Paso in February of this year. As proof of identification, Hill presented a birth certificate identifying her as a male, a court order approving his name change from a male to female, and an Arizona driver's license
Post Merge: August 10, 2010, 10:13:58 PM
AG declines to issue opinion on same-sex marriage
By Chuck Lindell | Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 11:52 AM
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/courts/entries/2010/08/10/ag_declines_to_issue_opinion_on_samesex_marriage.htmlCorrection: Post updated to reflect that Jo Anne Bernal is county, not district, attorney.
The Texas Attorney General's Office has declined to issue an opinion on whether counties can issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples if one of them underwent sex reassignment surgery.
