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05/12/2015
Texas GOP advancing hetero-entitlement bills for courts to ultimately strike down
Down in Texas, there are a pair of measures moving through the state legislature that are all designed to allow pastors and just about anyone else to essentially ignore a US Supreme Court ruling that finally brings marriage equality to the Lone Star State. One would allow vendors to refuse to serve same-sex couples, and another would literally bar state and local employees from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Towle has more info on both:
TEXAS LAWMAKERS ADVANCE 'PASTOR PROTECTION ACT,' CONTINUE FULL-FLEDGED ASSAULT ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE [Towleroad]
If neither of these bills work, then rumor has it that the GOP will move on to another bill that demands the state tourist board begin running one of the following slogans:
Visit the Alamo. Unless you're planning to bring Al, a 'mo
Everything's bigger in Texas (except the gay wedding gift we're never going to buy you)
Come for the barbecue, stay for the crude intolerance of gay people
Don't mess with Texas—or sodomy
Catchy. But I hope they fail. I love Texas. Would hate to stop going.
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