Rep. Tony Tinderholt, valiantly protecting the right for straight people to get married an infinite number of times.
Texas Rep. Tony Tinderholt, who is currently on his fifth marriage, is doing everything in his power to the protect the sanctity of marriage. When a Texas probate judged ruled the same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional, Suzanne Bryant and Sarah Goodfriend
didn't waste one minute:
Suzanne Bryant and Sarah Goodfriend, who have been together for more than 30 years, wed Thursday morning at the Travis County Clerk's Office after State District Judge David Wahlberg ordered Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir to issue a license to the couple.
The ruling only applied to this couple and the judge cited special circumstances:
The clerk's office emphasized that it will not issue more same-sex licenses, stating in a Facebook post Thursday that the the couple is "medically fragile" and "may not get the chance to hear the outcome of this issue because (of) one person's health."
Rep. Tony Tinderholt was outraged. OUTRAGED! He immediately filed a complaint against the judge with State Commission on Judicial Conduct. Unfortunately,
he got it all wrong:
▪ First, he complained about the wrong judge and case.
▪ Then, he applied the law the wrong way in his complaint.
▪ Had he managed to apply the law the right way to the right judge, he still would have come out wrong.
Tinderholt, 44 and in his fifth marriage, said in a published statement that he wants a judicial system that “respects the laws” and separation of powers, as if judges shouldn’t declare the Texas Legislature’s laws unconstitutional without prior permission from the Legislature.
In summarizing the entire embarrassing affair, the women's attorney had this to say:
“It’s a shame that someone who’s taken on the responsibility of writing our laws has so much misunderstanding of the law,” Thompson said.
You can read more about the case
here.