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Originally posted by Spanky
From the language it seems to me that they are trying to ban civil unions or any other sort of special relationship between people of the same sex.
Isn't it pretty clear what they are up to?
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I don't think it's clear at all that's what they're up to.
Or rather, clearly they want to ban gay marriage. I think there is also an effect in the language to ban giving martial-like status to non-marriages (i.e. extending benefits to heterosexual non-married life partners and/or common law spouses).
Unlike RT, however, I don't think this is accidental
at all - I think it doesn't displease the religious right one bit to outlaw living in sin, hetero or homo. But then again, I'm more cynical than RT when it comes to Texas politics. While it is clearly possible, or even likely, that Hanlon's Razor applies, I wouldn't put it past a committee of Texas Republicans in a smokey room (actually, probably a clean as a whistle sunday school room in a church basement) having actually thought this through.
