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Tag Archives: marriage equality

Cleopatra DeLeon and Nicole Dimetman, are one of the two plaintiff couples in the Texas marriage case.

Texas Will Have Gay Marriage Before Easter, Attorney For Same-Sex Couples Predicts

Mon, Jan 5, 2015 |

Same-sex marriage will arrive in Texas before Easter, according to an attorney for two couples who are challenging the state’s marriage bans in federal court....Read More

Attorney General Greg Abbott

by Forrest Wilder

A Closer Look at Greg Abbott’s Arguments For Same-Sex Marriage Ban

Wed, Jul 30, 2014 |

Greg Abbott is arguing to the Fifth Circuit that Texas' ban on same-sex marriage should be upheld to encourage straight couples to procreate....Read More

Reverend Margaret Walker and Monica Warn

by Jo Ann Santangelo

State of Denial

Legally married in other states, many same-sex couples in Texas face an uncertain future at home.

Tue, Jul 1, 2014 |

Legally married in other states, many same-sex couples in Texas face an uncertain future at home....Read More

Cleopatra de Leon, Nicole Dimetman, Vic Holmes and Mark Phariss

by Patrick Michels

Couples Challenge Texas’ Same Sex Marriage Ban in Court

Wed, Feb 12, 2014 |

Two Texas couples are waiting on a judge's decision after hours of arguments in their case to scrap Texas' ban on same-sex marriage....Read More

by Elizabeth Brenner

Op-Ed: How Texas Conservatives Keep Gay Couples Locked in Marriage

Tue, Nov 5, 2013 |

Texas’ laws against same-sex unions may have the perverse effect of keeping same-sex couples bound in marriage....Read More

by Patrick Michels

Two Couples Challenge Texas’ Same-Sex Marriage Ban

Fri, Nov 1, 2013 |

Two gay couples filed suit Monday for the right to marry in Texas....Read More

First Baptist Pflugerville Pastor Steve Washburn

Conservative Pastor Comes Up Short in Fight for Reckoning Over Same-Sex Partner Benefits

Wed, May 15, 2013 |

After Pflugerville ISD became the first school district in the state to extended benefits to employees’ domestic partners, conservative residents and one part...Read More

Lawmakers Propose Cutting Funds to Schools with Same-Sex Partner Benefits

Wed, Apr 10, 2013

Rep. Drew Springer's bill (R-Muenster) would withhold 7.5 percent of the state's funding to any district offering domestic partner benefits. That, he said, shou...Read More

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