Texas accidentally state marriages

Normally an effort to ban gay marriage would belong in the Shitty News section. Texas, however, decided to go above and beyond in and was so dead set on removing it with the most hilariously precise wording possible that they ended up creating an amendment that wasn't actually precise, as it would effectively ban all state marriages ever.

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Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state.

The amendment, approved by the Legislature and overwhelmingly ratified by voters, declares that "marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman." But the troublemaking phrase, as Radnofsky sees it, is Subsection B, which declares:

"This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage."

Architects of the amendment included the clause to ban same-sex civil unions and domestic partnerships. But Radnofsky, who was a member of the powerhouse Vinson & Elkins law firm in Houston for 27 years until retiring in 2006, says the wording of Subsection B effectively "eliminates marriage in Texas," including common-law marriages.

WAY TO GO TEXAS

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Take that, homophobes!

Oh, Texas. Will you never cease to amuse me?

I guess it will be the state for singles now.

Well, that's one way of achieving equality.

Oh wow, I lol'd. :D

Every time I see this story, I dance inside.

It's Texas. If they do anything, they do it big. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Oh good god. I love this so much.

Well done, you daft bible-bashers. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

theweirdkind wrote:

I guess it will be the state for singles now.

Making it some kinda lone star state!

Lapin wrote:

Oh, Texas. Will you never cease to amuse me?

I read this story out to my flatmate (who couldn't see my laptop screen) and she said exactly the same thing (in those words). I LOLed.

Forgive me as I retreat to laugh my self stupid...

I this is some sort of "stealth bailout" of the wedding-cake industry.

Ellym wrote:

Lapin wrote:

Oh, Texas. Will you never cease to amuse me?

I read this story out to my flatmate (who couldn't see my laptop screen) and she said exactly the same thing (in those words). I LOLed.

I always thought that my brain might be moonlighting.