Welcome to the NEW gay agenda, that you should have to live under the laws

The Texas Constitutional amendment that passed overwhelmingly (3 out of 4 voted for it) yesterday, says this:

Article I, Texas Constitution, (The Bill of Rights) is amended by adding Section 32 to read as follows:

(a) MARRIAGE in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman.

(b) THIS STATE or a political subdivision of THIS STATE MAY NOT CREATE OR RECOGNIZE ANY LEGAL STATUS IDENTICAL or similar to MARRIAGE.

So Texas just dissolved all marriage… Laura & W are sleeping in sin.

The state must withhold all retirement pay for widowed survivors of employed persons.

Healthcare has automatically been denied (both legally and tax deductible) to the non-employed spouse.

Essentially all couples are treated as gay couples were before this passed.

This was so good for the protection of families. :sarcasm:

So for those of you previously married people in Texas - who woke up this morning to find that it had been done away with – good luck getting alimony or a property settlement in a divorce, guess what your ex will be arguing “Your honor, the state won’t recognize anything IDENTICAL to marriage, therefore no alimony or community property laws apply” or should your former spouse die, expect some greedy family member from their side of the family to be the first to hire a lawyer to claim you have no rights to the property, after all the State of Texas made it very clear that they won’t recognize anything IDENTICAL to marriage.

In their haste to use their hatred of gays to get people to the voting booths, they made one simple little error. Had they phrased it as:

Article I, Texas Constitution, (The Bill of Rights) is amended by adding Section 32 to read as follows:

(a) MARRIAGE in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman.

(b) THIS STATE or a political subdivision of THIS STATE MAY NOT CREATE OR RECOGNIZE ANY LEGAL STATUS IDENTICAL or similar to MARRIAGE; except as in (a) above

then there would be no court challenge, the amendment would have been complete – without looping back on itself and having (b) negate (a).

I think there’s a word for this: Karma. Or as Jesus put it himself “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. Well, now you have been “done unto by others as you sought to do unto them”. Now (or shortly), you good people in Texas know what we feel like as we try to take care of our families and are stopped by the State and the bigots.

Welcome to the NEW gay agenda, that you should have to live under the laws you pass to hurt us.

Just for comparison’s sake, here are the much more carefully worded “It’s OK to hate Gays” Amendments that have been passed by other states. And even a few of them have had unforeseen consequences – such as the state of Ohio wiping all domestic protection laws for unmarried woman off the books, now it’s only a problem to beat the crap out of the female sharing your life if you’re married to her.

• Arkansas:
  
  
• "Marriage consists only of the union of one man and one woman. Legal status FOR UNMARRIED PERSONS which is identical or substantially similar to marital status shall not be valid or recognized in Arkansas, except that the legislature may recognize a common law marriage from another state between a man and a woman. The legislature has the power to determine the capacity of persons to marry, subject to this amendment, and the legal rights, obligations, privileges, and immunities of marriage."
  
  Kentucky:
  
  "Only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Kentucky. A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage FOR UNMARRIED INDIVIDUALS shall not be valid or recognized."
  
  Louisiana:
  
  "Marriage in the state of Louisiana shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman. No official or court of the state of Louisiana shall construe this constitution or any state law to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any member of a union OTHER THAN the union of one man and one woman. A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage FOR UNMARRIED INDIVIDUALS shall not be valid or recognized. No official or court of the state of Louisiana shall recognize any marriage contracted in any other jurisdiction which is not the union of one man and one woman."
  
  North Dakota:
  
  "Marriage consists only of the legal union between a man and a woman. No OTHER domestic union, however denominated, may be recognized as a marriage or given the same or substantially equivalent effect."
  
  Ohio:
  
  "Only a union between one man and one woman may be a marriage valid in or recognized by this state and its political subdivisions. This state and its political subdivisions shall not create or recognize a legal status FOR RELATIONSHIPS OF UNMARRIED INDIVIDUALS that intends to approximate the design, qualities, significance or effect of marriage."
  
  Oklahoma:
  
  "A. Marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman. Neither this Constitution nor any other provision of law shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred UPON UNMARRIED COUPLES OR GROUPS.
  
  B. A marriage between persons of the same gender performed in another state shall not be recognized as valid and binding in this state as of the date of the marriage.
  
  
  C. Any person knowingly issuing a marriage license in violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."
  
  Utah:
  
  "(1) Marriage consists only of the legal union between a man and a woman. (2) NO OTHER domestic status or union, however denominated, between persons is valid or recognized or may be authorized, sanctioned, or given the same or substantially equivalent legal effect as a marriage."
  
  Wisconsin:
  
  (Proposed)
  "Only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state. A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage FOR UNMARRIED INDIVIDUALS shall not be valid or recognized in this state."