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Several Texas lawmakers joined conservative leaders at the state capitol in Tuesday for a controversial slice of symbolic wedding cake in a 10th anniversary celebration of the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

A state lawmaker’s complaint has prompted the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct to investigate a judge who ordered the issuance of a marriage license to a same-sex couple.

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Friday the state’s same-sex marriage ban has been “needlessly cast in doubt” after a judge gave a lesbian couple from Austin permission to tie the knot. Paxton warned of “legal chaos” if the state Supreme Court doesn’t void their marriage and make clear that a judge wrongly allowed the couple to wed.

Ken Paxton says Probate Judge Guy Herman’s “misguided ruling does not change Texas law or allow the issuance of a marriage license to anyone other than one man and one woman.”

Faith leaders rallied for marriage equality Tuesday at the Texas Capitol, seeking to convince lawmakers that expanding rights to LGBT Texans won’t compromise their religious beliefs.

A judge in Travis County, Texas, on Tuesday ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, but the impact of the ruling remains unclear and the County Clerk declined to take any immediate action on issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Lambert Borgardt was sentenced to 10 years probation and 200 hours of community service after he pleaded guilty to assault charges.

AUSTIN, Texas — The city of Austin, Texas now has it’s first openly transgender police officer. KXAN-TV reports that officer Greg Abbink has been on the police force for ten years, but it wasn’t until this year that he says he began transitioning.

AUSTIN, Texas — NBA Hall of Famer Bill Russell says the fight for equality for gay athletes reminds him of the civil rights movement of African-Americans in the 1960s.

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas man who had nine of his teeth knocked out in a violent assault during Austin’s gay pride weekend in 2012, is sporting a new smile thanks to the goodwill of an Austin dentist.