Whoops: Did Texas Ban All Marriages?

Courtesy Austinist  Fri, 11/20/2009 - 11:30am

laverrue/flickr Conservatives can sleep soundly knowing the fight for gay marriage is not returning to Texas shores—at least not entirely.

The only Democratic candidate for Texas Attorney General, Barbara Radnofsky , says Texans were so eager to ban gay marriages in 2005 that they banned marriages altogether.

Don't understand how? Well, it seems that Subsection B of that constitutional amendment states:


“This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status...



 

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