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Originally Posted by TruTexan
Today it was on the news that Texas court has DENIED same sex couples that were legally married in other states to become divorced in this state; saying that if they recognized their marriages from other states that it would interfere with the State Law in Texas that is against same sex marriage.... can't even get divorced in this state if you are same sex married couple living here from another state where your marriage is legal.
I don't know what it will take for my home state of Texas to just go ahead and do what the right thing is for us queer folk and let us have the choice of getting legally married or not like other states have done in the rest of these United States...........which I see as Divided States.
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What it is going to take is for Section 3 of DOMA to be repealed. This, if I am not mistaken, is the section that says that states do not have to recognize perfectly valid same sex marriages, that are made in other states.
In my opinion, we did good in getting the Supreme Court to declare that one section of DOMA unconstitutional. The job isn't over with, though, until the whole law is found to be unconstitutional. This is going to take another lawsuit or three, I'm afraid.