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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: HAPPY2BME on July 09, 2017, 12:29:52 PM
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Texas' Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving one aspect of unnatural marriage left undecided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The controversial Obergefell decision in 2015 overturned natural marriage laws in more than 30 states, but similar issues such as adopting and spousal benefits were left out of the decision.
Enter the Texas Supreme Court, which has unanimously reversed a lower court's ruling that favored the City of Houston and its policy that extended benefits to employees in same-sex marriages.
The 9-0 decision sends the case back to trial and keeps alive the lawsuit filed in 2013 by two taxpayers who sued then-Mayor Annise Parker, a lesbian.
The city's charter banned same-sex benefits but Parker (pictured at right) made the decision anyway. (https://www.onenewsnow.com/media/5935812/annise-parker-not-happy_300x188.jpg)
Two years later, the landmark Obergefell ruling was handed down, handing a huge victory to homosexual activists. Yet the Texas high court stated that Obergefell guaranteed only the right to marry.
After the mayor's decision, Jonathan Saenz of Texas Values recalls that a petition drive put the issue on the ballot, and Houston voters overturned the ordinance.
In the state of Texas, says Saenz, when a state law hasn't been challenged and overturned by the courts, the state has a right to enforce that law.
"Particularly when you've got out of control, rogue local city government employees thinking they're above the law," he says.
https://www.onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2017/07/07/a-legal-victory-for-conservatives-in-tx