{"id":6246,"date":"2014-08-10T05:43:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T05:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/10\/same-sex-marriage-is-legal\/"},"modified":"2014-08-10T05:43:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T05:43:52","slug":"same-sex-marriage-is-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6246","title":{"rendered":"Same-sex marriage is legal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Same-sex marriage is more constitutional than states&#8217; bans against it.<\/p>\n<p>Court after court has ruled as such. The blog post attached to this item wonders why Texas&#8217;s attorney general can&#8217;t bring himself to recognize the inevitable trend that&#8217;s going to make it legal in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/modern-world<\/p>\n<p>Greg Abbott is likely to become the state&#8217;s next governor. As attorney general, he is obligated to defend what the federal judiciary is saying is indefensible: the state&#8217;s ban on same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The courts are tossing out states&#8217; bans &#8212; including the one in Texas &#8212; because the bans violate the U.S. Constitution&#8217;s 14th Amendment equal protection under the law clause.<\/p>\n<p>The state likely won&#8217;t win its appeal on that basis. It will try, though, to persuade federal judges that Texas&#8217;s ban is constitutional.<\/p>\n<p>I still struggle a bit with the notion of same-sex <em>marriage.<\/em> I agree that devoted same-sex couples are entitled to all legal rights as straight couples. Marriage? That particular terminology still bothers me.<\/p>\n<p>The more I hear about courts striking down these bans, the more I am convinced nonetheless that same-sex marriage is more constitutional than the state laws that prevent it.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Burka, the Texas Monthly blogger, wonders why Texas can&#8217;t join the 21st century. If the courts keep ruling as they have done, that day might be forced on Texas &#8212; and not a moment too soon.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Same-sex marriage is more constitutional than states&#8217; bans against it. Court after court has ruled as such. The blog post attached to this item wonders why Texas&#8217;s attorney general can&#8217;t bring himself to recognize the inevitable trend that&#8217;s going to make it legal in Texas. http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/modern-world Greg Abbott is likely to become the state&#8217;s next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6246\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Same-sex marriage is legal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1706,2006,2923,4088,4596],"class_list":["post-6246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-federal-judges","tag-greg-abbott","tag-marriage-equality","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-texas-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}