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Recently in Dallas, a judge officially granted a divorce to a gay couple who had been legally married in another state. It's being appealled by the AG (sorry, Attorney General. we call it AG at work) because his logic is that by granting the divorce, the judge was in fact recognizing that they were legally married. Legally speaking, he has a valid point. The judge, on the other hand, argues that under the US Constitution, full credit is given to judicial proceedings in any other jurisdiction, regardless if it falls in the same state. In short- because another court found the marriage valid, other courts should treat it as such. I'm not sure what jurisdiction this appeal would be in. Federal District Court maybe.

I suspect it's going to be overturned, because this is Texas after all, and the governor is backing the AG, but kudos to that judge for having the balls to do something like that. I'll be interested to see where this heads.

Here's a link to the news article: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-gaydivorce_02met.ART.State.Edition2.4bcd80d.html