[FL-LIST] Texas Accidentally Banned Heterosexual Marriage?

[James Smith]

IMO, getting government entirely out of the marriage relationship might be a very good plan.

James D. SMITH               |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com   |whether we act quickly and
                                    decisively
                             |or slowly and cautiously.


--- On Sun, 11/22/09, David Barnhart <dbarnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM> wrote:

> From: David Barnhart <dbarnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM>
> Subject: Re: [FL-LIST] Texas Accidentally Banned Heterosexual Marriage?
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Date: Sunday, November 22, 2009, 7:02 AM
> Way to go Texas!  Bushlips may
> not be dead yet.
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> DKB
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> Barnhart at highlands.com
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> From: The discussion list for Language and the Law
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> On Behalf Of john lynch
> Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:07 AM
> To: FORENSIC-LINGUISTICS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [FL-LIST] Texas Accidentally Banned Heterosexual
> Marriage?
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> 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
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> http://www.newser.com/story/74400/texas-accidentally-bans-straight-marriage.html
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> 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
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> "(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.
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> 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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