skews13 Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/02/26/3335161/federal-judge-rules-texas-ban-sex-marriage-unconstitutional/ A federal judge has ruled that Texas’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the equal protection guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. According to Judge Orlando Garcia, a Clinton appointee, the state’s marriage laws deny same-sex couples the right to marry, and therefore “demean their dignity for no legitimate reason.” Garcia stayed his decision pending appeal, so same-sex couples cannot begin marrying yet. The case was brought by two couples: Victor Holmes and Mark Phariss, who want to marry in Texas, and Cleopatra de Leon and Nicole Dimetman, who want their Massachusetts marriage recognized. Dimetman and De Leon are raising a child together. The ruling would prevent the state from enforcing its 2003 law and 2005 constitutional amendment that limited marriage to opposite-sex couples. Voters passed that amendment by a 3-to-1 margin, but a plurality of Texans now support marriage equality. According to the ruling, not only are these families denied benefits under the law, they are also subjected to “state sanctioned discrimination, stigma, and humiliation,” explaining: “In this case, it is clear that Plaintiffs suffer humiliation and discriminatory treatment under the law on the basis of their sexual orientation, and this stigmatic harm flows directly from Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage.” Garcia cited Windsor, the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the Defense of Marriage Act, noting that not recognizing same-sex marriages “demeans the couple, whose moral and sexual choices the Constitution protects.” Garcia also dismissed the state’s arguments that banning same-sex marriage was somehow worthwhile to protect children or promote procreation. Echoing the similar ruling in Utah, he ruled that the ban only hurts the children of same-sex couples while doing nothing to affect whether heterosexual couples marry or how they raise their children. Preempting responses from conservatives accusing him of judicial activism or overturning the will of the people, Garcia concluded by pointing out that he is simply enforcing the U.S. Constitution: Today’s Court decision is not made in defiance of the great people of Texas or the Texas Legislature, but in compliance with the United States Constitution and Supreme Court precedent. Without a rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose, state-imposed inequality can find no refuge in our United States Constitution. Furthermore, Supreme Court precedent prohibits states from passing legislation born out of animosity against homosexuals (Romer), has extended constitutional protection to the moral and sexual choices of homosexuals (Lawrence), and prohibits the federal government from treating state-sanctioned opposite-sex marriages and same-sex marriages differently (Windsor). Garcia is the seventh federal judge to rule against a ban on same-sex marriage since the Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act last summer, following rulings in Illinois, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Utah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandrew002008 Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Does this mean you're moving to Texas to be with your lover now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skews13 Posted February 26, 2014 Author Share Posted February 26, 2014 Does this mean you're moving to Texas to be with your lover now? No this means another state or morons loses their war of discrimination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTZilla Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 texas doesnt give a shyt what feds say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebelitarian Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Exactly the Feds are nothing but Globalist traitors taking orders from Bilderbergers. Marriage is between 1 man and 1 woman. Screw the gay-militants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marthas Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Exactly the Feds are nothing but Globalist traitors taking orders from Bilderbergers. Marriage is between 1 man and 1 woman. Screw the gay-militants. your bigotry and ignorance aside, I think Texas and people like you should secede, you clearly do not want to be Americans...you see America is home to many people you hate, so why would you still wanna be here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isabel Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 your bigotry and ignorance aside, I think Texas and people like you should secede, you clearly do not want to be Americans...you see America is home to many people you hate, so why would you still wanna be here? Well, the bad news for resentful, nasty white trash assholes like him is that Texas IS TRENDING BLUE. LOLOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandrew002008 Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 It will be appealed and overturned. States should allow voters to make their own decisions not federal judges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackdog Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Next stop bestiality, pederasty...... Camel's nose is way in the tent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallopian Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Sound like Texas is going to secede. awe poor babies. I'm ok with that. Texans are the lowest form of white man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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