One Vote, Two Answers
Prop 2 passes statewide; Travis County an exception
Updated: 11/8/2005 11:04 PM
By: News 8 Austin Staff
Despite a last-minute effort to rally Travis County to vote against Proposition 2, the gay marriage ban amendment passed overwhelmingly in Texas.
Texas became the 19th state to approve a constitutional ban of gay marriage as voters decided nine proposed amendments on Tuesday.
Now the rest of the story. Travis County, home to the Texas Branch of the "Let's Use the Courts to Get Us What We Can't Get at the Ballot Box" progressive liberal demoracists also is home to one of their chief operatives, Ronnie Earle, who is currently persecuting Representative Tom DeLay. Are you starting to understand why Tom DeLay wants his trial moved from Travis County to his home county of Fort Bend? On the one hand we have Travis County which we will codename "fruits and nuts county." On the other hand we have Fort Bend County which we will codename "jury of my peers county."
Judge Pat Priest will hold the first session of the trial on November 22 in Travis County. Tom DeLay could probably find an unbiased jury of his peers in almost any Texas county with the exception of Travis County. It is time for this ridiculous, politically motivated trial to go away. The charges are so problematic that they will probably be dropped and Ronnie Earle will return to being a bad memory.
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Here Ducky, Ducky, Ducky, Here Ducky.
ho mo pho bi a n. 1. Fear of or contempt for lesbians and gay men. 2. Behavior based on such a feeling.
"Don't Mess With Texas" is a very successful ad campaign about messing up the Great State of Texas with litter. Get an adult to explain it to you.
You will have to try again with your DeLay comments. Too delirious for me to make any sense out of what you said.
Mr. ducky,
As BB says, "Don't Mess with Texas" was an anti-litter campaign. Do you mean to imply that homosexuality is just "so much litter" on the landscape?
And I wouldn't be so proud of "civilized" New England if I were you. You might be accused of white supremacy.
And I suspect the election results simply prove that red issues went over big in red states, and blue issues in blue states. Is that news?
samwich,
You need to switch back to New England lobsters. I think you'll find that they are actually much fresher, and the proof is in the screaming sound when thrown into the pot.
And as for beer, you know the motto inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi... "Nothing to Excess". So I suppose one beer wouldn't hurt ya. And total abstinance can be an outright sin.
It's when you come from Massachusetts and gulp from the fountain of freedom to deeply, as many gays have done, that a problem develops. With those heady drafts, one tends to lose patience and try and usurp powers granted the state by any means. The judicial branch is NOT the legislature. It CANNOT order the legislature to PASS laws declaring homosexual marriage to be considered legal, as it recently did. It can only declare existing laws "unconstitutional". And declaring their marriage laws "unconstitutional" might prove to be something of an embarrassment to them. Separation of powers. To ignore that fundamental principle is simply "asking" for government tyranny.
-FJ
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