TX: Attorney General Tells Clerks To Wait To Issue Licenses To Same-Sex Couples, Some Clerks Refuse

The Texas Attorney General is having an insane meltdown. He published a hyperbolic statement, and told clerks to wait on issuing licenses to same-sex couples. 

Newly-elected Texas Attorney General and religious right crusader Ken Paxton has issued what can only be described as an insane, hyperbolic diatribe over the Supreme Court’s marriage decision. Today, he penned a crazed press release, then told county clerks to wait for his directive before issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Fortunately, some county clerks are ignoring him.

Here are snippets from Paxton’s tantrum on today’s Supreme Court marriage decision:

“radical departure from countless generations of societal law and tradition”

“dilution of marriage as a societal institution”

“assault on the actual text of the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law itself”

“unelected judges”

“personal and economic aggression against people of faith”

Meanwhile, back in the real world, it seems some county clerks are ignoring the Texas Attorney General.

At least one is abiding by his order:

But some are not:

The AP adds that in Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio, clerks are issuing licenses to same-sex couples.

 

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