Hank Gilbert on Dallas County Same-Sex Divorce Decision
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 2, 2009
STATEMENT OF HANK GILBERT, DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR,
ON DALLAS COUNTY SAME-SEX DIVORCE DECISION
TYLER-Hank Gilbert, Democratic candidate or governor, issued the following statement concerning the decision in Dallas County on Tuesday granting a same-sex couple married in Massachusetts a divorce in Texas:
“A private matter between two people, lawfully married in another state, and a Texas judge has unnecessarily become a media spectacle due to the poor judgment of Attorney General Greg Abbott who decided to interject his office into a simple divorce.
General Abbott made the decision to waste taxpayer money on a matter that clearly did not involve his office. I call on him to quit wasting state funds on an attempt to score political points. The judge, in this instance, was completely in the right and deserves the full- throated support of every Texan and all of our state officials for her effort to make this as simple a process as possible.
The Full Faith and Credit Clause of the U.S. Constitution [Article IV, Section 1] stipulates that states recognize contracts from other states. The marriage bond is universal. If you are married in another state and live in or move to Texas, you can get divorced here. A same-sex couple should not receive treatment from our courts that differs in any way from the treatment given any other couple. For General Abbott to say that appealing the decision will ‘defend the traditional definition of marriage’ is a fallacy.
This is precisely the problem with state government today: politicians placing their own interests and prejudices ahead of the best interests of all Texans.”
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October 18th, 2009 at 7:21 am
Wow. I suppose this is better than nothing. I really don’t think we’ll ever see Texas upgrade their ancient political structure.
October 20th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Heh,heh.
Sounds like the A.G. doesn’t believe in Freedom of Religion either.
That’s as in not conflating the religious practice of matrimony with civil union and using wafflewords about the usual simultaneous existence of the two. Somebody should really remind these twits that the reason for that is to give people freedom to practice their beliefs without interference : which is why a two-way street needs to be maintained ‘rendering to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s’ and ‘the things to God that are God’s.’
That reminds me of a joke about the priest,minister and rabbi at an Ecumenical Conference, trading yarns. The Baptist told of ‘the counting room’ supposedly being defined with a line down the middle and the offering thrown in the air. Money falling on one side went to expenses, the other to missions. The priest allowed the same tale prevailed, with a bullseye painted instead of a line.
Whereupon the rabbi snorted.He one-upped them with the simple line “They say of us we throw it in the air…and what God wants…he keeps!”
Anyway. I happened to note an interesting blogging ring ad at the bottom of
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