Austin TX

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) could have been held in contempt of court had he not ultimately complied.

An energy executive and father of a former University of Texas football player is facing an assault charge in an attack on a gay Dallas man in Austin.

Bobby Beltran, 31, says the incident occurred March 15 after he and a his friends were asked to leave the W Hotel bar because they were too drunk.

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.