Tisket
10-02-2009, 02:55 PM
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas judge has cleared the way for two Dallas men to get a divorce, ruling that Texas' ban on same-sex marriage violates the constitutional guarantee to equal protection under the law.
District Judge Tena Callahan's ruled Thursday that the court "has jurisdiction to hear a suit for divorce filed by persons legally married in another jurisdiction."
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has argued that because the state doesn't recognize gay marriage, its courts can't dissolve one through divorce. Voters approved a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in 2005.
It's like: "We don't acknowledge the legitimacy nor do we approve of gay marriage, but we'll give you a divorce, on a technicality."
And sort of tongue-in-cheek but, if you are serious about divorcing an unwanted spouse would you really choose to file in a state where said divorce might be eventually reversed? And if you've remarried would that make you a bigamist?
Up is down black is white and nothing is what it seems.
link (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-10-01-texas-gay-divorce_N.htm)
District Judge Tena Callahan's ruled Thursday that the court "has jurisdiction to hear a suit for divorce filed by persons legally married in another jurisdiction."
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has argued that because the state doesn't recognize gay marriage, its courts can't dissolve one through divorce. Voters approved a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in 2005.
It's like: "We don't acknowledge the legitimacy nor do we approve of gay marriage, but we'll give you a divorce, on a technicality."
And sort of tongue-in-cheek but, if you are serious about divorcing an unwanted spouse would you really choose to file in a state where said divorce might be eventually reversed? And if you've remarried would that make you a bigamist?
Up is down black is white and nothing is what it seems.
link (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-10-01-texas-gay-divorce_N.htm)