. . UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM : UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS : LAW: LEGISLATION : HATE : GAY RIGHTS : RELIGION: CHRISTIAN: CONSERVATIVE PROTESTANT : BIGOTRY : LAW: CASE: DECISIONS: Texas AG Promises Appeal to Gay Marriage Ruling . . Texas AG Promises Appeal to Gay Marriage Ruling By CHRIS TOMLINSON, Associated Press Updated 11:05 pm, Wednesday, February 26, 2014 San Francisco Chronicle SFGate http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/ Texas-AG-promises-appeal-to-gay-marriage-ruling-5271957.php . A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/pd3m7pd . .AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office was working on an appeal Thursday of a federal judge's decision to lift the state's ban on gay marriage.
.U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled a day earlier that the ban was unconstitutional. But the judge is allowing the law to remain in place to give Abbot time to appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, noting that the issue will likely end up at the U.S. Supreme Court.
.Abbott, the leading candidate to replace Republican Gov. Rick Perry, took a conciliatory tone after the ruling. He said "there are good, well-meaning people on both sides" of the same-sex marriage debate, but he insisted that states have the right to set their own marriage laws.
.He said Texas voters did just that in 2005, by passing a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between a man and a woman.
."As the lower court acknowledged today, it's an issue that will ultimately be resolved by a higher court," Abbott said, adding that Texas would begin that process by appealing to the 5th Circuit.
.In his ruling, Garcia said marriage was an individual right that a voter-approved constitutional amendment couldn't deny. He said his decision was not made "in defiance of the great people of Texas or the Texas Legislature," but in compliance with the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court precedent.
."Without a rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose, state-imposed inequality can find no refuge in our United States Constitution," he wrote.
.Garcia's ruling added to a tangled web of court rulings, state laws and legal opinions across the country that is expected to end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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