Judge orders Texas to recognize spouse on same-sex death certificate

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters

REUTERS
05 AUG 2015 AT 19:08 ET

A U.S. judge on Wednesday ordered Texas officials to recognize on a state death certificate the surviving spouse in a same-sex marriage whose husband died earlier this year.

The case comes as states such as Texas, which had barred same-sex marriage, grapple with changes brought by the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in June that made gay marriage legal in the United States.

exas, where Republican leaders have tried to push back against gay marriage, had balked at recognizing John Stone-Hoskins as the surviving spouse on the death certificate of James Stone-Hoskins, according to court documents.

U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia in San Antonio ordered defendants including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, and the state’s acting health commissioner to appear in his court next week as he considers whether they should be held in contempt.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/judge-orders-texas-to-recognize-spouse-on-same-sex-death-certificate/

[Skittles]

1. Texas officials, having to be told to act like human beings

f***

[catrose]

2. Yeah, really

Dying men, pregnant women, children...no one is immune from their torture except cis white heterosexual men.

[NV Whino]

3. Yes!

[christx30]

4. How far back can this go?

Do we see estates settled five years ago now threatened by a nurse who says “I was really a lover”?
What else comes into question after the death of a person?
After all, a lot of room-mates in rent controlled areas would love to say “I get my husband’s apartment”, or female room-mates a la “Golden Girls” say “I get the house from my wife”.