Dallas judge's ruling saying gay couple could divorce in Texas rejected on appeal

[damntexdem]

This is Texas: protecting the sanctity of the sacrament of divorce. ;-)

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/090110dnmetgaydivorce.aa8079fa.html

'A state appeals court in Dallas has rejected a lower court's decision that two gay men who married in Massachusetts had the right to divorce in Texas.'

'In October, state District Judge Tena Callahan ruled that the men could legally end their marriage and that the state's prohibition against same-sex marriage violated the federal constitutional right to equal protection.'

(snip)

'Additionally, Justice Kerry P. Fitzgerald wrote in the decision: "We hold that Texas district courts do not have subject-matter jurisdiction to hear a same-sex divorce case."'

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Does the ruling imply that Texas recognizes same-sex marriage?

[GodlessBiker]

2. I think it implies exactly the opposite.

[PBS Poll-435]

4. Yep. Like trying to hear an Alaskan Salmon case. nt

[Vincardog]

3. The marriage rights amendment states that TX Does not recognize marriage. How can

Texas district courts do have subject-matter jurisdiction to hear ANY divorce case?





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[GodlessBiker]

5. I wonder if, for example, first cousins, who are not permitted to marry in TX, get married...

somewhere else and move to Texas, whether they can get divorced in TX?

[Vincardog]

6. The State of TX DOES NOT RECOGNIZE the MARRIAGE of ANYONE. The wingnutz made it the Constitution

[ejpoeta]

7. probably as long as they are opposite sex and not same sex 1st cousins

[gratuitous]

8. Ah, who cares about the Constitution, anyway?

"Full faith and credit" doesn't apply to any of them inferior states, right Texas?