Gay Divorce? Texas Says No

[onpatrol98]

DALLAS — After the joy of a wedding and the adoption of a baby came arguments that couldn't be resolved, leading Angelique Naylor to file for divorce. That left her fighting both the woman she married in Massachusetts and the state of Texas, which says a union granted in a state where same-sex marriage is legal can't be dissolved with a divorce in a state where it's not.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/20/gay-divorce-texas-says-no_n_543965.html

[slackmaster]

1. This is why the issue of same-sex marriage must be resolved at the national level

I guess Ms. Naylor will have to go back to Massachusetts to get her divorce.

[WeDidIt]

2. Full faith and credit clause

End of discussion.

[Statistical]

3. So TX is forcing gay couples to STAY married.

I mean I wonder how happy the anti-equality crowd in TX will be about this when they learn about it.

Just shows how somethings need to be resolved at national level.

[onpatrol98]

4. Strange irony

[slackmaster]

5. No, in the eyes of the state of Texas they are not married and never were

Therefore it would be illogical to allow them to divorce.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. Full Faith and Credit Clause, folks.

yes I am a lawyer.

I thought a judge in Dallas granted a gay couple a divorce that had been married in Massachusetts, and Greg Abbott had hissy fits and filed a brief to annul the marriage or some sort of unconstitutional bullshit like that.

Then they could go into 14th Amendment, due process and equal protection & the privileges and immunities clause if they wanted to.