“We weren’t sure how many people were going to be here and we just wanted to get here and get in line and we were the first ones,” Hennen said. She and Whitney Hennen were the first couple to get their license in Denton County. “We wanted it to be a joyous day, so we really didn’t want to come up and be denied so we waited until today,” Sara Bollingersaid. Meanwhile in Denton County, where same-sex couples were turned away Friday, Monday was a different story.
says there’s an army of attorneys in the Lone Star state at the ready, willing to defend them for free. Clerks who choose not to issue licenses may face lawsuits, but the A.G. Ted CruzĪlong with other Republican presidential candidates, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is telling county clerks they can refuse to give out marriage licenses to same-sex couples if they have religious objections. “I’ve introduced legislation that would strip the federal courts from jurisdiction from assaults on marriage I would encourage other Republicans to support that legislation,” said Sen. Not surprisingly, not everybody is happy about it. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.ĭENTON COUNTY - Now that the Supremes have ruled on gay marriage, thousands of same-sex couples have tied the knot. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
