Texas says, "Gay couple cannot get divorced"

Don’t you just love how a law can override just about anything? Even if the law is completely wrong—without justice, morals, freedom and truth? It sure makes me feel wonderful to be an American citizen, especially since I can get married in only a handful of states. Oh, yeah, and I can’t get a divorce if I want to in Texas! Gee, I sure feel a sense of freedom. This freedom, of course, could never be tainted and twisted in such a light to appear as fairness, even though it is nearly equal in levity as the Jim Crow laws that came to a head in the mid 1960’s.
Though gays may not suffer many things that blacks once suffered under American law, one thing is still obvious to the GLBT community and its supporters: we are ridiculed or worse if we show affection to one another in public. We cannot get married. We are not recognized as first-class citizens. We are often accused of unwarranted perverseness. We are preached about by many ministers, pastors, and the like, as evil, a sin, an abomination, and many other appalling words. We have quaint words that are thrown around, and easily accepted by many as normal: faggot, dyke, fudge-packer, and others that are too crude to mention. We are very mistreated by our own countrymen. I would love everyone to read this articled embedded here. It is about a recent murder of a fifteen year old who knew who he was, and was killed for expressing himself. Read down to the bottom and you’ll see the actual percent of how much more likely a GLBT student is harassed than a “straight” student: 50%. WAKE UP AMERICA! THIS IS BIGOTRY AND PREJUDICE!
According to recent events, dually noted by the Associated Press and the Austin American Statesman, a lesbian couple who were married in Massachusetts was able to get a divorce in Texas, though it is against the legal ban on such issues. Just a few months after, a gay couple wanted to do the same thing. However, they had a different judge who wasn’t from Austin like the judge for the lesbian couple’s hearing. This judge claims that “the parties lack standing to file a divorce case because they are not married” (qtd. in the AP). Hmmmm, I’m thinking that they are married and that Texas has a big fat stick up its “you know what” because it has yet to grow beyond the Dark Ages. The U.S. constitution (under full faith and credit clause) overrides Texas’s law, people! If something is valid in one state, it must be recognized in other states! Really, I don’t think I can say enough about this. I am tired of living in a country that resists growing beyond infancy. I am more than exhausted by this country’s inability to take responsibility for its lack of understanding. In other words, there are too many ignorant people who do not see how treating the GLBT community this way is exactly how we have treated blacks, women, and countless other minorities in the past. This is just simple truth.
There is no difference from Americans once saying that blacks were marked by the devil and that the Bible said they are evil and must be punished, to saying that the Bible says that gays are a sin and do not deserve to be equal citizens because they are not equal under the “god of the Bible.” It is all a cudgel as it has been countless times in the past. Beyond the Bible’s function as a cudgel for hatred, racism, and bigotry, it is a deeply false and hurtful claim that the church has made. How can we still promote, and even suckle from these old ideas and ignorant statements? They do not work!
Once upon a time, other religions were evil according to the Catholic and Protestant Churches, and many others. We’ll use them as an example. Because these other “sacrilegious” faiths were so evil, all the “heretics” involved with them had to be destroyed. St. Patrick was not shooing actual snakes out of Ireland. He was destroying the Irish peoples’ holy sites and aggressively spouting his own ideas of divinity. He even forced several people to get baptized into his religion, which they obviously did not believe in. Must I even mention the Inquisition? I’m talking about all the tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of lives that were destroyed because of some hot-headed Popes and leaders who thought that torturing and murdering entire cultures would get people to convert to Catholicism. Come on, folks! Wake up and see the evil in those acts! Wake up and see the narrow-minded, destructive, separatist thoughts in those overplayed records! Wake up and see that this same cycle of ignorance, hate and violence is being perpetuated today, here, in Texas and all across America! Gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered: they are all people too. Stop accepting the bigotry and prejudice and start seeing the truth. There are so many other countries that are way ahead of America with this, and many other issues. Unfortunately, that’s another blog.
If two people get married and are legally married in one state, this should be recognized in EVERY state. Therefore, if they want to get a divorce, they should be able to get a divorce legally in EVERY state. Not a void, but a divorce. They are married and that is how a marriage is ended people! This kind of divide and prejudice is causing more strife and harm than it is good. We will never be the “land of the free” if we continue down such paths of ignorance, hatred and inequality—never.