Texas Ban on Same Sex Marriage Struck Down by Federal Judge.

Texas ban on same-sex marriage struck down by federal judge

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Dammit the gayness keeps spreading.

it'll likely move to a higher court where it'll again be struck down again, but the judge granted a temporary injunction that should allow gay people to marry in Texas in the meantime

EDIT: oh, he granted a temporary injunction then put a stay on it pending appeal; dick

Well, we're all going to hell

Spread the gay people, spread the gay I tell you!

Well, I think we can all honestly say that we never saw that coming.

Idk, I thought it was pretty clear, remember that this is coming from the courts and not from the state level. There is no legal basis for not giving equal rights to gay couples. The Supreme Court was able to punt with their DOMA and Prop 8 positions but if one of these recent challenges from Virginia, Texas or Utah reaches the court I could easily see them declaring all state bans illegal.

Because state rights are so 1800s.

So is that, Fabulous?

Yep, not long before the apocalypse will happen in texas

oh no, not more strong ads

You are grossly oversimplifying. Reasonable limits need to exist on states rights to prevent tyranny of the majority within that state against the minority groups. We can't wait on the individual states themselves to come around to the simple reality of their immoral and outdated beliefs. If we had done that with segregation, we'd either still have a few southern states with it to this day, or we would have only just seen the last one give it up and move on within the last decade or so.

They had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era back then, and they will need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era yet again on this issue. If we wait, we won't see same sex marriage rights until 2050 or later in my home state of Georgia, and other states down here. This is going to end up back in front of the US Supreme Court much sooner than later at this rate, and these people better come up with an actual non-religious legal justification for what they want to do, because as we saw last time just standing there thumping the bible is not a valid argument.

They lost, and they WILL lose again.

So annoying Federal Court waste resources on this 'gay' rights movement but won't bother legalizing marijuana

They should just do both right now and get it over with.

It's okay though, that's how god expresses his love.

@Randolph: yeah the whole world isn't going to same sex marriage and smoke pot if it became legal.

At this rate in a few months these rulings won't even be making headline news anymore.

Do you feel that way about gun rights, or only issues with a decidedly progressive slant?

It's complicated. :)

I will say though, I do support gun rights.

Thanks Obama! What a great president.

Agree, he is da best.

More gay for everyone!

Also, surprisingly progressive move from Texas. Arizona made their own progressive move today too.

Is the South finally working towards NOT being stupid?

I think states should have some power over gun rights. But I think that there are plenty of "reasonable limits" that the feds have failed to put into place for everywhere.

Why are Taxans so concern about who fucks who in bed? That's not a very conservative view to care about social lives.

And if it's against your religion, why do you continue to give a ****? Let them go to hell if that's what you believe. You let murders and rapist get away with it easy without judging them with your picket signs.

well in Texas, they probably send those people straight to the lethal injection chamber

Considering it's the Federal courts telling them that their laws are unconstitutional, I'm going to go with no

Being a supporter of gay marriage, I understand the logic behind not allowing marriages to take place in the period between a ruling and an impending appeal. If this is appealed successfully it would create a bureaucratic nightmare with a lot of marriages no longer being recognized. Better to get the full victory first. That being said, if there was any justice in this issue SCOTUS would take up one of these cases ASAP and tell gay marriage opponents to **** off and do something better with their time, but seeing as how that's not going to happen anytime soon since they're content to try and pass the buck to the states at every opportunity, I think it's better to get a full victory than to run the risk of marriages performed in the interim being invalidated.

yeah, they had a chance with Prop 8, but they ended up wimping out

Prohibiting marihuana doesn't violate the Constitution.

I'm not familiar with the American political system, but I have to assume that eventually (within the next few years) they'll have to allow gay marriage country wide, rather than state by state.

As more states make it legal, it'll bring more issues when gay couples move from to a different state where it's not legal, correct?

damn, more n more girls going lesbo, someday we guys will have nothing :(

Are you afraid of catching "teh gay", TC?

Finally hit texas huh about time :P