if their churches are going to fire people and kick people out of their church for acts perceived to be against their faith then not performing one's assigned civic duties should be an offense resulting in dismissal!

enough already.

over the course of our history on this spinning orb, we have generally progressed forward re: society and its acceptance of traits, behaviour, etc. that have been outside the norm held by the group(s) in power.

Suffrage
Slavery
Civil Rights
LGBT rights

They either sue, and lose, or they force us to sue them, and they lose.

Bunch a freaking LOSERS!!

because you can just bet that there will be alot of lawsuits and I suspect the state will be losing most of them especially if a state official while on the job discriminates against someone because of the governors order.

We have the most stringent tort reform in the country. If you somehow get a judgement against a corporation, the Texas Supreme Court will take it away and make up something to justify their ruling.

I say they can do that if they are not sinners

That's what you'll be facing unless you eliminate all spousal benefits for state employees. I'm sure that will go over well with the state employees in Texas.

A Texas sized Martha Coakley.

But we had people here at DU who were just cocksure that she was the next governor of Texas.

:eyeroll:

LOST BIG TIME. Allison Grimes in Kentucky is another one. Martha Coakley should never be allowed to run for anything. Losing Teddy Kennedy's seat in Mass??? Really??? And then the Governorship???

What then was the alternative you proposed?

eyeroll, part II

I mean, if it really is about "religious freedom" and not about hating on gay people.

Had best not go to Texas.

a curtain of love like a wet match.

The ssm ruling was clear and unambiguous.

since they are now violating the constitution.

If he orders this, is it not a serious act of sedition?
Add up all the other crap he's said, and he's looking for a nice long stay in the Crowbar Hotel.

that they can go ahead and violate the law. In fact, he has essentially encouraged them to do so.

I guess they wouldn't accept that there's a religious excuse for that.

They are going to fight this tooth and nail, kicking and biting, every damned inch of the way. I hope the courts come down on them HARD for this kind of nonsense.

The "Pastor Protection Act" is perfectly OK with me, but giving an individual state employee the right to deny benefits to people based on sexual orientation is absurd. I have no doubt that Governor Abbott is homophobic, and that his bigotry is based on sincerely held Christian beliefs. However, he is the governor of all the people in his state and he has no right to enforce the law for the benefit of some and not for others. Yet that is exactly what his order to the heads of state agencies does.

would he issue the same order regarding the ADA?

Not force it upon other people through their jobs. I think those religious bills are gubbermint over reach.

government withholds funds. It is one of the tools the government has and it works.

Hey, win/win for the assholes, right?

but these wingnuts are refusing federal $ for medicaid expansion and denying millions of their own constituents health care just to try and stick a thumb in the eye of the president. and apparently they are screwing themselves out of millions because of their twisted ideology. i am afraid the feds are going to have to come up with something else besides withholding $.

too bad we are not dealing with rational people.....

with marriage applications.

Abbott appears to be encouraging state employees to break the law, and telling other state employees not to enforce the law. I'd think that's impeachable in a decent system.

Lawsuits that are going to have absolutely ZILCH in merit in the long run, especially after today's ruling.

When we've got hunger, poverty, teen pregnancy, illiteracy, famine and disease in Texas. You'd think the SOB could prioritize a little better.

Yes, I sure wish that Wendy would have won.

"It is so ordered."

pronouncements about how we are now doomed and whatever else nonsense are just childish bigots in the middle of a temper tantrum. they no longer have someone they can hold up and say see we are better than they are the law says so . to hell with them not worthy of our attention there is important business to do and they are not it.

I hate being so close to TX...

I just hate their guts, sometimes...

This is what I heard today..."You can now be married at 10 AM, and be fired by 4 pm" (sic) in many states...

The fight goes on...

like they said in that movie, follow the money...
I have been telling my friends this for years, and most of them, after considering my point, agreed...

Perry being a lifelong government employee, and all......

Get ready for more lawsuits, which you will lose, Gov. Asshat.