{"id":368839,"date":"2015-06-29T09:36:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T14:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=368839"},"modified":"2015-06-30T11:30:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T16:30:21","slug":"rep-simpson-wants-special-session-to-end-marriage-licensing-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=368839","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Simpson Wants Special Session to End Marriage Licensing in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_368840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-368840\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/David-Simpson1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/David-Simpson1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"House and Senate action on May 16, 2011\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-368840\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-368840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">House and Senate action on May 16, 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>LONGVIEW &#8212; State Rep. David Simpson, Longview, announced this morning that he is asking Governor Abbott to call a special session to remove state and local officials from the process of issuing marriage licenses. Simpson said in a news release that he wants the Governor to immediately call a special session of the 84th Legislature \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in light of the Supreme Court\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lawless and unconstitutional redefinition of marriage.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The Supreme Court on Friday declared that same-sex couples have the right to wed anywhere in the United States.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Simpson stated that the process of issuing a marriage certificate should be done by clergy members, as long as it is consistent with their beliefs. Also, he says, any authorized notary could approve a certificate for couples not wishing to have a religious ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Gregg County was among many in the state on Friday citing issues with government forms as a reason marriage licenses could not be issued to same-sex couples. The forms have gender-specific fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; State Rep. David Simpson, Longview, announced this morning that he is asking Governor Abbott to call a special session to remove state and local officials from the process of issuing marriage licenses. Simpson said in a news release that he wants the Governor to immediately call a special session of the 84th Legislature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=368839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rep. Simpson Wants Special Session to End Marriage Licensing in Texas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":368840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 03:11:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368841,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368839\/revisions\/368841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/368840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}