WSJ Brain Fart: ‘Texas to Same-Sex Couple: Keep Your Divorce Out of Our Courts’
17th December 2010
Is it just me, or has the quality of commentary in the Wall Street Journal plunged downhill lately?
On its face, there’s something strange about this notion: that a state that does not recognize same-sex marriage will not allow two women, married to one another in a different state, to get a divorce.
Strange to a Crustian metrosexual, perhaps, but not strange to an intelligent adult. No marriage => nothing to dissolve. Duh. (This guy graduated from law school and clerked for a federal judge? Our education system is worse off than I thought.)
James Blacklock, a lawyer in the attorney general’s appellate division, said that Texas law forbids any action that recognizes or validates a same-sex marriage granted in another state, even if the point of the action is to dissolve such a marriage.
So he knows the issue, he’s either too stupid to understand plain English or in denial about it.