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February 24, 2017 3:44 PM
Smith: "Jim Crow, June Crow, Jose Crow Laws"
From the Left: QR’s Liberal Columnist Glenn W. Smith argues that the anti-gay marriage movement is just one way today’s Republican leadership is trying to divide America by law
The
all-Republican Texas Supreme Court,
apparently alarmed at political threats from the far right, will rehear a case
that would make second-class citizens of public employees in same-sex
marriages.
The Court
rejected the Houston case last September by an 8-1 vote. Then came a flood of emails
from members of sects once part of a religion of love. The emails more or less threatened
to unseat the judges unless they voted to diminish the lives of the targets of their
hatred.
Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick,
engaged in an undeclared war over who can best pander to the extremists, filed
briefs urging the court to reverse itself and take up the case. Attorney
General Ken Paxton did, too. He
wasn’t about to miss the party.
The full column by Glenn W. Smith is in the R&D Department.
By Glenn W. Smith
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