[FL-LIST] Texas Accidentally Banned Heterosexual Marriage?

[David Barnhart]

Way to go Texas!  Bushlips may not be dead yet.

 

DKB

 

Barnhart at highlands.com

 

From: The discussion list for Language and the Law [mailto:FORENSIC-LINGUISTICS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of john lynch
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Subject: [FL-LIST] Texas Accidentally Banned Heterosexual Marriage?

 


Don't know if you all saw this . . . they may have gotten so concerned about other people not speaking English that they forgot to learn how to speak it themselves

 

http://www.newser.com/story/74400/texas-accidentally-bans-straight-marriage.html

 

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=%22may+not+create+or+recognize+any+legal+status+identical+or+similar+to+marriage%22&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

"(Newser) – The geniuses who wrote Texas’ gay marriage ban may have accidentally banned all marriage in the state, according to one Houston lawyer. Subsection B of the ban, a constitutional amendment ratified in 2005, states, “This state…may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage.” The intent was to prevent even civil unions for gay couples—but it doesn’t actually specify the “gay” part. 

The wording essentially “eliminates marriage in Texas,” Barbara Ann Radnofsky, the Democratic candidate for state attorney general tells the McClatchy Papers. “You do not have to have a fancy law degree to read this and understand what it plainly says.” Conservatives scoffed at Radnofsky’s tactics. “It’s a silly argument,”

 

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