The
San Antonio Express-News reports:
U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia has
ordered Texas officials to appear in court next week to determine if
the state should be held in contempt for failing to recognize same-sex
marriage. Garcia issued the order Wednesday in response to a request
from a Conroe police officer who says the Texas Department of Health and
Human Services refused to amend his spouse’s death certificate to
reflect he was married. The death certificate lists him as single.
Garcia instructed the state on Wednesday to immediately amend the death
certificate of James Stone-Hoskins to add John Allen Stone-Hoskins as
the surviving spouse. John Stone-Hoskins, a former police officer who
lives in Conroe and is dying from cancer, asked Garcia to hold the
department and the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in contempt. Garcia
ordered Paxton to appear before this Court next Wednesday at 10 a.m.
Paxton was arrested and booked on multiple felony securities fraud charges on Monday.
Reposted from Joe Jervis
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