Two gay couples have filed suit in Texas challenging the state's ban on same-sex marriage, the San Antonio Express News reports:
“In Texas, Plaintiffs cannot legally marry their partner before family,
friends, and society — a right enjoyed by citizens who wish to marry a
person of the opposite sex. And should they become married in a state
that has established marriage equality, Texas explicitly voids their
marriage,” said the suit, filed in San Antonio by attorney Barry
Chasnoff (pictured) of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. “There is no
rational basis, much less a compelling government purpose, for Texas to
deny plaintiffs the same right to marry enjoyed by the majority of
society.”
The suit names as plaintiffs two same-sex couples, Mark Pharris and Vic
Holmes and Cleopatra De Leon and Nicole Dimetman, but makes it clear the
litigation is pursuing rights for a larger group of people in similar
situations.
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