The ruling is pretty simple:
State District Judge Randy Clapp's ruling comes in a lawsuit filed by the firefighter's family. The suit claims his widow should collect nothing because she was born a man and Texas doesn't recognize same-sex marriages.
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Nikki Araguz lost her husband, and now her dignity as a human being.
I'm not going to fault the Judge, because he was following the law, and I don't know what other options he had.
This is why we need to keep fighting for Marriage Freedom. Until any two unrelated consenting adults can get married, then marriage is a special right, and not what it should be: a fundamental right.