Mayor Annise Parker has recently passed an executive order
to provide benefits for members of same sex couples working for the city. I
support Mayor Annise Parker’s new plan to provide benefits for members of same
sex couples working for the city. However, that doesn’t change the fact that it
violates the Texas Constitution.
The order passed, is a good thing, because I see no reason to
deny same sex couples the benefits that traditional marriages have. I hope one
day every city in Texas will have this policy.
However, reading the Texas constitution, it explicitly says that
no political entity of the state of Texas is to acknowledge gay marriage. Rather than fighting this
battle on the local level, we should fight it at the state level and focus our
local government policy on providing services to the people of Houston.
Although Mayor Annise Parker has made the right decision, we
must acknowledge that it violates the Texas Constitution and we must fight our
local level battles rather than fight the Texas Capitol from the base of City
Hall.
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