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May 21, 2005
A Crisis for Texas
Houtopia has written extensively about the Republican leadership in the Texas Legislature's laudable ability to stand firm in the face of nuisance issues -- such as public school finance, the tax bill and children's health insurance -- and focus on what actually impacts Texans in their everyday lives -- rampant illegal voting, an epidemic of gay foster parenting, and the paucity of "properly" named state highways.
In the waning days of this 79th Texas Legislative session, the GOP leadership (with the help of a few Democrats) has once again shown it is keeping its eye on the ball, and sticking to what really matters to Texas families.
There is a crisis in Texas. It's not that the public schools may be shut down in October -- oh no. It's not that the Republican State Comptroller says current state budget and revenue estimates are billions of dollars apart -- nah. And it's not that thousands of Texas children have no health insurance coverage -- nope.
What really threatens the very viability of our great state is that gay marriage is not illegal enough. Sure, there are already three state laws on the books making same-sex marriage illegal, but one can never be too sure. That no same-sex couples in Texas have actually tried to get married is irrelevant -- it could happen at any moment. So, praise indeed for our fine elected officials who toil to resolve such pressing issues of the day.
It makes one wonder -- what will our fine GOP leadership do when this critical issue is resolved once and for all this November? Maybe they and their fellow legislators can just take the next session off. After all, their real work is done.
Posted by houtopia at May 21, 2005 08:06 PM