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Texas bathroom bill advances after 13 hours of passionate testimony
Unlike in North Carolina, where the law known as HB2 passed a year ago with broad Republican support, the Texas bill has split conservatives and faces a tougher road.
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Governor: Texas suing over Obama’s transgender directive
The state is suing the Obama administration over its anti-discriminatory transgender bathroom directive to U.S. public schools.
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This man is trying to reverse same-sex marriage by marrying his laptop
“This is about who is on the right side of reality,” he says.
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Texas AG: State workers can deny marriage licenses to same‑sex couples
Texas’ conservative Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton called the Supreme Court decision giving same-sex couples the right to marry a “lawless ruling” and said state workers can cite their religious objections in denying marriage licenses.
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Q&A: Where Texas stands following Supreme Court marriage decision
Here’s an update on how same-sex marriage is reverberating across Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that gays and lesbians have the right to wed.
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Texas governor dismisses Supreme Court ruling, demands state agencies preserve religious liberties
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a directive to all state agencies demanding they preserve Texans’ religious liberties after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage.
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Texas Supreme Court upholds divorce of same-sex couple
The Texas Supreme Court has upheld the Austin divorce of a same-sex couple, rejecting challenges in a state where same-sex marriage remains outlawed.
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Texas governor gets behind fast-moving religious objections bill
GOP Gov. Greg Abbott is publicly getting behind a religious objections bill that is moving fast after the U.S. Supreme Court heard historic arguments over same-sex marriage.
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Would Texas AG have also defended his state’s ban on interracial marriage?
AUSTIN — Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who has led his state’s defense of its same-sex marriage ban, has repeatedly said his role is to defend state laws. So the question was posed, would Abbott have also fought to defend the old Texas law banning interracial marriages?
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Texas AG says same-sex marriage ban reduces out-of-wedlock births
AUSTIN — Texas Attorney General and GOP gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott says the state’s ban on same-sex marriage is in the state’s interest because it reduces out-of-wedlock” births. In a brief Friday filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Abbott says legalizing same-sex marriage would would do little or nothing to encourage …